The remains of brothers Carlos Enrique and Santiago—natives of the municipality of San Juan del Río, Querétaro—were located and recovered from clandestine graves in Sinaloa. They had been reported missing since April 2025, following a vacation trip to the port city of Mazatlán.
The discovery was made on May 9 by the search collective “Por las Voces Sin Justicia” (For Voices Without Justice) in the rural area of Concordia. This mountainous municipality is facing an acute humanitarian crisis, with at least 20 clandestine graves discovered since February of this year; notable among these are the burial sites where the bodies of nine out of ten miners employed by a Canadian company—who had been abducted—were recovered.
The search operation was conducted in coordination with, and under the security protection of, the Specialized Agency for Enforced Disappearance (Southern Zone) of the Sinaloa State Attorney General’s Office. However, members of the collective criticized the absence of the State Commission for the Search of Persons, accusing the institution of failing to deploy operations or personnel to Concordia, despite multiple alerts identifying the region as a critical hotspot with a high concentration of illegal burial sites.
The brothers had traveled to Mazatlán in April 2025 accompanied by a third young man, identified as José Isaías Rosey, who remains missing. From the moment communication was lost, the victims’ relatives in Querétaro had notified authorities that the young men were in the municipality of Concordia, basing this information on GPS records and the last active location of Carlos Enrique’s cell phone. The State Attorney General’s Office will proceed with the necessary genetic and forensic analyses prior to the formal handover of the remains to the families, while searches continue in the mountain region to locate José Isaías and other victims of disappearance in the state.
