“Long live the disappeared” resounds in Mazatlán on the night of the “cry”

“Why, how can we celebrate in a land where violence continues to drown out voices? This September 15th, there is no celebration, no full homeland while our children are not at home,” warned the civil association For Voices Without Justice on its Facebook account.

On the night when everything was expected to be celebration, music, and socializing as if nothing had happened, the relatives of missing persons in Mazatlán were present.

Along with the harangues of Mayor Estrella Palacios, the pleas of the mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives of men and women who have disappeared in the city were heard.

“MY CRY IN MAZATLÁN!

My cry cannot be heard amidst music or fireworks.

My cry is one of pain for every life taken, for every family broken, for every grave we have found in this land.

My cry demands justice, calls for peace, and cries out for the return of those we are still searching for.

My cry doesn’t celebrate, it resists.

Because how can we celebrate in a land where violence continues to silence voices?

This September 15th, there is no celebration, there is no full homeland while our children are not home.

My cry is memory, it is love, and it is hope,” they posted on the For Voices Without Justice website on September 12th.

And the day arrived, the night of September 15th, when, with banners and wanted posters in hand, they raised their voices.

A megaphone helped ensure their cries were not drowned out by those of Estrella Palacios, whom they rebuked to listen to them first.

Dressed in folkloric attire, some women wore the words “Long live the disappeared” on their skirts.

On 21 de Marzo and Guillermo Nelson streets, near the steps of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, wanted cards were raised while the mayor shouted from the balcony of City Hall, “Long live justice! Long live peace! Long live women!”

Meanwhile, on social media, the stories of the families of missing persons continued, like Nadia, Cecilia Berelleza’s sister, last seen on July 25, 2025.

“CECILIA BB, today instead of singing “Las Mañanitas” to our father, I was shouting “LONG LIVE THE MISSING!” I felt so nostalgic, I was torn apart, my voice was breaking. I felt proud to see so many people supporting me—family, friends, acquaintances, journalists—but I couldn’t stop thinking that you are still missing, that day after day I miss you and need you. I ended up exhausted and hoarse, but grateful to GOD because He still gives me the strength to continue searching for you!!!”