La Bartolina Matamoros, Tamaulipas: Delia Quiroa Pleads With The Gulf Cartel

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The Collective Union of Mother’s Seeking Missing Loved Ones of Tamaulipas asked this Friday for "a truce of peace" from the leader of "Los Ciclones", one of the armed wings of the Gulf Cartel.

Activist Delia Quiroa said that the letter, on behalf of the 200 families of disappeared citizens in the state, sent a letter to the leader of the Gulf Cartel due to the lack of results from the authorities who have not delivered the bodies of their relatives.

The Collective Union of Mother’s Seeking Missing Loved Ones added that the objective of reaching a truce with "Los Ciclones" is so that they can access the La Bartolina property, located in Matamoros. The searchers, she added, want the authorities to exhume and identify thousands of human remains in that area in the hope that they will find their loved ones.

Video translation is as follows:

This message goes out to the leader of Los Ciclones of the Gulf Cartel (CDG) that operates in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas

Leader of Los Ciclones of the CDG of Matamoros, on behalf of the 200 families with missing family members, I send this message: “I ask of you, I beg of you and I plead with you to have a truce of peace. This with the aim of one day, if we happen to find our disappeared, be able to die in peace ”.

This communication is being done with the legal objective and the need to access the Bartolina property located in Matamoros, Tamaulipas; to demand that the authorities exhume, identify and hand over the victims found in thousands of remains on that site, of which we have been aware of its existence since the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.

We want to make it clear that: “We are not looking for the guilty, we are looking for our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and family members”.

As we know and it’s in the public domain that your organization in its beginnings and currently during the pandemic, have carried out humanitarian actions giving support to those most in need in the face of the government's inaction, this is why we appeal to your compassion and good heart as human beings that we are and allow us to go to the Bartolina property in their city to demand that the aforementioned authorities of the three levels of government carry out all the necessary steps to begin, so that they will soon exhume the remains that are found there.

We have decided, in the absence of due diligence and response from all the authorities responsible for searching, locating and identifying our relatives, to request this truce with you, in which you respect our life and free movement, giving us free access to the place where we are likely to maybe find one or more of our relatives. The uncertainty of not finding our loved ones has resulted in endless torture for us, not knowing the fate or whereabouts of our disappeared, which is unbearable.

Just so that you know that we are relatives of disappeared citizens, that we only want to know if our relatives are in the town of La Bartolina, we will tie a white scarf on our left elbow and we will carry white flags as a sign of peace and truce.

If you accept our request, we ask of you to let us know your response in the manner in which you proposed a peace and truce on the border with the placement of a blanket. Or in the best possible way for you.

Sincerely, Union of Colectivos de Madres Buscadoras in Tamaulipas

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