Mexico’s missing person crisis

“My son dropped dead there,” says Eva María Vázquez. Jaime González was murdered inside a house still under construction, in a humble neighborhood of Irapuato, in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico. He was the third son taken from her. Jaime was killed while his mother and her partner, Francisco Arias, were held downstairs at gunpoint, their faces pressed against the ground, their hands tied behind their backs. Before leaving the house, the armed group also took Arias, whom everyone calls Panchito. They did it just in case. They were not sure that they had killed the right person. “What do we do with this old man?” one asked. “Take him, take him,” another said.

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