Ceci Flores of Seeking Mothers of Sonora hopes to find her son again: “I will keep looking”

Cecilia Patricia Flores Armenta, founder of the collective Mothers Buscadores de Sonora, hopes that the remains located on the Hermosillo Coast will belong to her son Marco Antonio, but if the evidence does not prove positive to confirm her identity, she will continue tracing with the same hope and insistence for find it.

“I can only hope that he will actually be my son with genetic testing and if not, he is still one of the thousands of children that I am looking for throughout the country,” said the leader of the collective in an interview with Infobae Mexico.

An anonymous call alerted Flores Armenta, a resource she has used to spread the need for reports, but at first she feared it might be a trap, as this is the third time she has been told about possible points where her son might be.

It was around 10:00 a.m. on the morning of this recent April 14 when the report came in. She hesitated to attend to him, because she was getting ready to return to Mexico City, where she has taken refuge for the reprisals suffered by the collective in order to locate their loved ones.

Once again, the hope of finding Marco Antonio prevailed at any risk. So the leader of the collective, her sister and her sister-in-law went to the site provided by the informant, near kilometer 5 of Calle 20 Sur in an uninhabited property on the Costa de Hermosillo.

An armed group kidnapped Ceci Flores' son on May 4, 2019 in Bahia de Kino; he was taken with his younger brother, Jesús Adrián, whom they returned after six days of asking for them and after searching for them everywhere. Almost three years have passed and he has not found the whereabouts of the one who was around 31 years old.

Since then, Flores Armenta has followed signs, excavated land and suffered threats, but this Friday he enlisted for another search. The trajectory was winding, because halfway through the way their van broke down and they took three hours to repair it with the help of another person who passed by the place.

Between 17:20 hours they found the pit where the remains of a skull were located. She recognized some similarities, passed the report to the Sonora Prosecutor's Office, and agents from expert services arrived to collect the bone fragments and take them to the forensic laboratory.

On the afternoon of April 15, Marco Antonio's relatives were preparing to return to the place, to remain vigilant for the search efforts. According to the report of the ministerial authorities, laboratoritas will be responsible for carrying out the genetic comparison of DNA for correspondence.

The Sonoran also wants to find her other son, Alejandro Guadalupe, who disappeared in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, on October 30, 2015. Therefore, it will continue with anonymous informants, demands on institutions to act on complaints and tracking operations by the state or surrounding areas.

To date, the collective Mothers Seekers of Sonora has located more than 900 missing persons, who have been placed with the support of more relatives for almost three years, according to Cecilia Patricia Flores Armenta.

After reporting on her Twitter account of the recent discovery, thousands of users expressed solidarity with the activist and shared the hope that these remains will correspond to one of the children she has sought.

The federal authorities recognize a crisis of 95,000 people missing so far in the country, some 76,000 of them since 2006, when the war against drugs began with Felipe Calderón.

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