A mother who was looking for her missing daughter in Mexico is shot to death. She is the second victim in just over a month

A mother searching for her missing daughter has died in Mexico in the fourth murder by volunteer search activists in the country since the start of 2021, and the second in just over a month.

The group Voice of the Disappeared in Puebla reported this Tuesday that the victim is

who was looking for her 24-year-old daughter who disappeared in January 2021. She was murdered in the city of Puebla, east of Mexico City, according to this organization.

The Puebla Prosecutor's Office confirmed the death and promised to resolve the case "as soon as possible."

"Stop making superficial speeches and guarantee the rights and safety of the victims, and of the families of disappeared persons," the organization requested.

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Gallardo was gunned down, according to the United Nations Human Rights Office in Mexico, which condemned the murder and noted that the woman "provided relevant information on several occasions about the disappearance of her daughter, which was not used effectively to investigate the crime, nor in the search”.

Gallardo's daughter, Betzabé Alvarado Gallardo, disappeared in the humble neighborhood of Villa Frontera.

In late August, another wanted activist, Rosario Rodríguez Barraza, was killed in the northern state of Sinaloa, where the drug cartel of the same name is based.

In 2021, another searcher, Aranza Ramos, was found dead a day after her group found a still-smoldering pit of bodies in Sonora, also to the north.

Earlier that year, volunteer Javier Barajas Piña was shot in Guanajuato, the most violent state in the country.

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The motive for these killings remains unclear.

In the past, many searchers said publicly that they were not looking for evidence to convict the perpetrators of the deaths.

Most of the volunteer search teams are made up of the mothers of the more than 100,000 disappeared in Mexico.

Given the inaction or incompetence of the authorities, many are forced to carry out their own investigations or join search teams that, based on clues, go through ravines and fields sinking iron bars into the ground to detect the smell of corpses. decaying.

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The searchers, and the police officers who sometimes accompany them, tend to focus on finding graves and identifying the remains.

Groups sometimes receive anonymous tips about where bodies are buried, information likely only available to the killers or their accomplices.

But volunteers often say they are threatened and watched, probably by the same people who murdered their sons, brothers and husbands.