The mother of Carlos Emilio Galván Valenzuela—who went missing 13 months ago in Mazatlán, Sinaloa—has filed an *amparo* (constitutional protection) lawsuit in federal court against officials from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), citing failures in the search for her son.
The legal action alleges a lack of oversight and failure to execute ministerial orders, as well as the failure to locate two witnesses whose whereabouts could provide information about what happened that night.
According to the *amparo* lawsuit, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office repeatedly issued orders to locate and interview two witnesses—Edgar Valenciana del Río and Gustavo Barrios Ramos—in connection with investigative files held by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Kidnapping Offenses and the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Enforced Disappearances, both under the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
The plaintiff asserts that there is no record of these orders having been carried out; the investigative files contain no comprehensive reports detailing any actions taken to locate either of the two witnesses.
On October 21, 2026, the legal counsel formally requested assistance from the Military Intelligence Center (Defense), the National Intelligence Center (SSPC), the Naval Intelligence Unit (Secretariat of the Navy), the General Directorate of Intelligence (National Guard), and the Cyber Investigations Unit (FGR). As of the date the lawsuit was filed, no response had been received.
