“If it costs me my life, I’m taking my son’s body out of that house.”
“I would close my eyes, but then I would see him buried under the ground, but with his eyes open, and stuck there; looking up at me like this,” Martinez said Thursday, making a face to show how she imagined her dead son shot desperate looks at her from beneath the blackness of his undiscovered grave.César Ezequiel Rico de la Cerda, her 17-year-old child, disappeared from Tijuana’s southeast Urbi Villa Del Prado II neighborhood in October 2018.
“It was a phone call to my colleague ... who was given an exact point where he would find a body,” said Jesus Varajas Chairez, a Riverside resident and president of Buscando a Tolando, or Searching for Tolando, his missing brother.A few of the men went first on the search, well aware the area was probably guarded by armed cartel members.
In 2019, Tijuana again easily topped the list of Mexican cities with the most murders, its 2,185 documented homicides once again earning the border city of approximately 1.8 million people the infamous title of the “most violent city in the world,” according to the Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.
The collectives have shifted their searches to other places in Mexico, Lettieri said, but the concept was born in Baja California, where parents first began forming alliances to pressure the Mexican government to aid in their search for missing children.The parents purchase their own shovels and pointed metal sticks, which they use to poke into the ground to locate bodies. The take anonymous tips and run down leads — work they say local detectives are too afraid to do.
Some $500,000 that was supposed to be budgeted for the missing persons department in 2020 was never delivered because of an error by the past administration, according to the current director, Juan Manuel León Martínez. Though the new state government has tried to correct the mistake, he said budgets remain tight.
“It’s a re-victimization,” Martinez said. “Many people don’t even go to police to report their missing loved ones because they know how they will be treated. I told them it didn’t matter if my son was the worst person they could imagine, they still needed to go do their job.”Eighty of them traveled to Tijuana last week to provide federal investigators with DNA samples to determine if their missing family members were among the newly found bodies.
Days later, she said, the person who sent her the messages was found shot dead in the street, a casualty of Tijuana’s raging drug violence.
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