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Yadira González, Alma Delia Murillo and Mirna Nereida in conversation with Héctor Guerrero

Disappeared in Mexico

Querétaro 2025, 

In a country that, unfortunately, has become used to horrors, the discoveries at the Izaguirre Ranch, in Teuchitlán, were on such a scale that they have shaken the country. It has also served to bring back into the spotlight one of Mexico’s most painful realities: forced disappearances; and to place value on a group of brave women, the Madres Buscadoras. Guests are Mirna Nereida, founder of the Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte; Yadira González, a rastreadora who discovered the Tepeji del Río mass grave; and Alma Delia Murillo, a fiction writer who has written about the strength and grief of these mothers in Raíz que no desaparece.

Yadira González, Alma Delia Murillo and Mirna Nereida in conversation with Héctor Guerrero