In Mexico, Not Dead. Not Alive. Just Gone.<br />"I’ve been waiting so many years for this." He had spent the last six years searching for his daughter Karla, charging through every obstacle with an obsession<br />that bordered on lunacy — cartel threats, government indifference, declining health, even his other children, who feared that his reckless hunt had put them in danger.<br />" said Ms. Delgadillo, whose contact with her two other children tapered off in recent years.<br />that It just leaves you with so little time to raise and be a parent to the rest of your kids,<br />" he said to Ms. Delgadillo. that I wonder if this clothing might be as close as we ever get to our children,<br />Officially, the Mexican government acknowledges the disappearances of more than 30,000 people — men, women<br />and children trapped in a liminal abyss — neither dead nor alive, silent victims of the drug war.<br />Mario Valencia said that One woman came into my office crying, asking me to give her a body, any body, so she could bury it as her son,<br />" "I’m looking for buried clothing," he said, "and ashes." A woman from the federal prosecutor’s office intervened.<br />that I know you want to find body parts, but I have information that our kids were probably dissolved in acid or burned.
