“We have already taken four bodies out, and the last grave is being checked to see if it is only one or two. They are complete bodies. One is a skeleton. The other two still had a bit of skin, and the other is in two bags,” said Liliana Meza, from the Luz de Esperanza collective.
According to Meza, the search was started due to an anonymous complaint, and is related to the disappearance of her son Carlos Maximiliano Romero Meza, last seen on October 22, 2020.
“It is a forced disappearance. My son was taken from my home in La Tuzanía in Zapopan,” she said. She has not had any information about her son, who was a student at the University of Guadalajara.
She said that they cannot continue to bear having to find people who are missing in Jalisco, for which she demanded that the government do its job, and that people should not be satisfied with finding only graves. She said that they need to be found alive.
The area was cordoned off by the authorities while forensic experts carried out the extraction of the bodies, which were transferred to the facilities of the Jalisciense Institute of Forensic Sciences, where the legal autopsy and subsequent identification of the victims will be carried out.
Members of the Luz de Esperanza collective said that they will resume search activities in the grave on Monday.