Series<\/a><\/p>\n Mexico – Sinaloa,<\/strong> 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n Las Rastreadoras de Fuerte. Mexico. Sinaloa.<\/p>\n In Mexico, the dead are counted in the tens of thousands, the missing fade away as if nothing had happened. There are over 40,000 in Mexico. The country is ravaged by drug cartels. People disappear and the police, suspected of corruption at the highest level, do not investigate. In the state of Sinaola, 1100 graves have been discovered since 2007. In 2019, violence has reached a new record. 8943 murders, or 10% more than the previous year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> An war which drags all Mexicans in its wake. A dozen or so throughout the nation are looking for a simple shovel in their hands, the bodies of their sons. A group of women called “Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte” (“The Stalkers of El Fuerte”), named after a town in northern Sinaloa, is carrying out excavations in the state of Sinaloa, located in northwestern Mexico, in order to find their missing relatives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>
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![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/01SINALOA_.jpg\" "Like every Sunday and Wednesday, Mirna Nereyda Medina and members of the Restreadores gather to search for the bodies of the disappeared in the region. Sometimes on the basis of information, sometimes at random. On that day, despite a message sent by an anonymous informant who specified the presence of a strong smell and a cluster of flies at the foot of a tree near Mochikahui, the mothers found nothing. Mexico. Sinaloa State.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02SINALOA_.jpg\" "Carmen Josas, 62 years old His son Edgar Jos\u00e9 Joses disappeared in June 2018 at the age of 39. She does not know exactly when he disappeared and where. She imagines at her place of work, he was a security guard at the petrol station a few kilometres from her home in Los Mochis. But the boss never wanted to confirm it. She found his body a few months later, he'd been taken to the morgue. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/03SINALOA_.jpg\" "Photo of Edgar Jos\u00e9 Joses in his mother's bedroom Carmen Josas. Edgar Jos\u00e9 Joses disappeared in June 2018 at the age of 39. She does not know exactly when and where he disappeared. She imagines at his place of work, he was a security guard at the petrol station a few kilometres from her home in Los Mochis. But the boss never wanted to confirm it. She found his body a few months later, he'd been taken to the morgue. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/04SINALOA_.jpg\" "Crows on the road between Los Mochis and El Fuerte. Mexico. Sinaloa State.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/05SINALOA_.jpg\" "Blanca Soto Martinez, 45, She lives in a house on the road between Los Mochis and El Fuerte. Her husband, Camillo Robles Palacio, a retired former police officer, was abducted on 28 November 2016 while he was in his car not far from their house. Thanks to an anonymous tip, she found his body 10 months later.")
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![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/06SINALOA_.jpg\" "Gathering of Las Restreadoras d'El Fuerte in the center of Los Mochis, at the foot of the Monument a la Madre, state of Sinaloa, a group of mothers looking for their missing sons. On the ground they placed stones on which they stuck photos of their children. Some of them have been looking for their sons for years. In Mexico more than 40,000 people are missing, and only their mothers are trying to find out where they are buried. Most of the time, the police simply register the missing person report. They don't investigate. Between 2006 and 2017, the authorities of 24 states in the country revealed the existence of 1606 graves where 2489 bodies and 584 remains were exhumed. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/07SINALOA_.jpg\" "A street in the city of Los Mochis at nightfall. Mexico. Sinaloa state.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/08SINALOA_.jpg\" "Sonia Ivone Chanez, 47 years old Her son, Pablo Adrian Sandoval Chanez, 26, went missing on 10 May 2018 while accompanying a drug dealer friend to a local supermarket. His body has still not been found. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09SINALOA_.jpg\" "Juana Escalante, 49 years old Her son Adrian Humberto Escalante Barreras, 28, disappeared on the corner of their street in Ahome on 28 August 2018 while he was joining a friend. A van appeared and picked them up. The friend managed to escape. Adrian never reappeared. Juana still hasn't found him. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/10SINALOA_.jpg\" "Photo of Adrian Humberto Escalante Barreras, 28, on the phone of his mother Juana Escalante, 49. Adrian Humberto Escalante Barreras, 28, disappeared on the corner of their street in Ahome on 28 August 2018 while he was joining a friend. A van appeared and picked them up. The friend managed to escape. Adrian never reappeared. Juana still hasn't found him.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/11SINALOA_.jpg\" "Mirna Nereyda Medina, 48, at home. She founded the Restreadoras in 2015, one year after the disappearance of her son Roberto in the state of Sinaloa, known to be held by one of the country's largest cartels. Her goal: to enable families to know where their missing children have been buried, if not what exactly happened to them. Mirna has only found the remains of her son's body, she will continue to search for him for the rest of her life. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa. A group of women called \"Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte\" (\"The Trackers of El Fuerte\"), named after a town in northern Sinaloa, is carrying out excavations in the state of Sinaloa, located in northwestern Mexico, in order to find their missing relatives.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/12SINALOA_.jpg\" "Une rue de la ville de Los Mochis \u00e0 la tomb\u00e9e de la nuit. Mexique. Etat du Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/13SINALOA_.jpg\" "In the premises of the women's association \"Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte\" (\"The Stalkers of El Fuerte\"), Izamar Alexia Lopez Corrco, 7 years old, is waiting for her grandmother Mirna Nereyda. Behind her is a photo of her father who disappeared in 2014. Mirna Medina, founded the Restreadoras in 2015, one year after the disappearance of her son Roberto in the state of Sinaloa, known to be held by one of the country's biggest cartels. His goal: to enable families to know where their missing children have been buried, if they do not know what exactly happened to them. Mirna has only found the remains of her son's body, she will continue to search for him for the rest of her life. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/14SINALOA_.jpg\" "Bodyguard of Mirna Nereyda Medina, 48 years old, in the premises of the \"restreadoras\". Mirna Nereyda Medina, 48, founded the Restreadoras in 2015, one year after the disappearance of her son Roberto in the state of Sinaloa, known to be held by one of the largest cartels in the country. Her goal: to enable families to know where their missing children have been buried, if they do not know what exactly happened to them. Mirna has only found the remains of her son's body, she will continue to search for him for the rest of her life. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/15SINALOA_.jpg\" "Maria Cleo Fas Lugo, known as \"Monkey\", 74 years old, in the premises of \"Las Rastreadiras del Fuerte\". His son Juan Francisco Angulo Lugo disappeared on 19 June 2015. He was 33 years old. He was in the street changing the lights of a street lamp, it was his job, colleagues saw him being abducted. His mother has still not found him. And she still doesn't know why he's missing. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa. A group of women called \"Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte\" (\"The Trackers of El Fuerte\"), named after a town in northern Sinaloa, is carrying out excavations in the state of Sinaloa, located in northwestern Mexico, in order to find their missing relatives.\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/Maria Cleo Fas Lugo, dite \u00ab Monkey \u00bb, 74 ans, dans le local des 'Las Rastreadiras del Fuerte\"")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/16SINALOA_.jpg\" "Like every Sunday and Wednesday, Mirna Nereyda Medina and members of the Restreadores gather to search for the bodies of the disappeared in the region. Sometimes on the basis of information, sometimes at random. On that day, despite a message sent by an anonymous informant who specified the presence of a strong smell and a cluster of flies at the foot of a tree near Mochikahui, the mothers found nothing. Mexico. Sinaloa State.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/17SINALOA_.jpg\" "Like every Sunday and Wednesday, Mirna Nereyda Medina and members of the Restreadores gather to search for the bodies of the disappeared in the region. Sometimes on the basis of information, sometimes at random. On that day, despite a message sent by an anonymous informant who specified the presence of a strong smell and a cluster of flies at the foot of a tree near Mochikahui, the mothers found nothing. Mexico. Sinaloa State.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/18SINALOA_.jpg\" "Clothing found while digging for a body. Like every Sunday and Wednesday, Mirna Nereyda Medina and members of the Restreadores gather to search for the bodies of the disappeared in the region. Sometimes on the basis of information, sometimes at random. On that day, despite a message sent by an anonymous informant who specified the presence of a strong smell and a cluster of flies at the foot of a tree near Mochikahui, the mothers found nothing.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/19SINALOA_.jpg\" "El fuerte city police north of Los Mochis. That's the area where Mirna Nereyda Medina began her search. A lot of disappearances being reported in the area. In Mexico the police are accused by the families of the victims of being largely responsible for the disappearances. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20SINALOA_.jpg\" "Jawbone of an unidentified body found by Mirna Nereyda Medina. Mirna Nereyda Medina, 48, founded the Restreadoras in 2015, one year after the disappearance of her son Roberto in the state of Sinaloa, known to be held by one of the country's largest cartels. Her goal: to enable families to know where their missing children have been buried, if they do not know what exactly happened to them. Mirna has only found the remains of her son's body, she will continue to search for him for the rest of her life. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/agencevu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/21SINALOA_.jpg\" "Graves of unidentified people at the Los Mochis City Cemetery. City of Los Mochis. Mexico. State of Sinaloa.")
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