Prosecutor's Office took one body, left others buried: activist Flores excavates Sinaloa grave again

Activist Ceci Flores, founder of the Mothers Seeking the Missing collective, has returned to a mass grave in Sinaloa, Mexico, alleging that state prosecutors did not complete their work at the site. Flores claims that after the initial excavation, authorities took one body but left others buried.

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We are not talking about just one person, what did the Prosecutor's Office do? They took one body and left the others buried here.

Flores, who was searching in the Cubiri de Portelas municipality, shared a video on social media showing herself and other mothers unearthing more bones. She stated that an anonymous tip had indicated more than three people were buried there, and her team found remains belonging to at least two additional individuals. The video shows bones being removed from the earth, with Flores pointing out what she identified as human remains.

"We are not talking about just one person, what did the Prosecutor's Office do? They took one body and left the others buried here," Flores lamented. She expressed frustration that mothers are forced to return to these sites due to the lack of thoroughness from officials, driven by their deep need to find their loved ones. Flores continues to search for her son, Alejandro Guadalupe Islas Flores, who disappeared in 2015.

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We come to see if they had left the other bodies because the person was saying there were more and yes.

This is not the first time Flores has clashed with authorities over the handling of discovered remains. On July 6, she accused personnel from the Sinaloa Search Commission of re-victimization and of downplaying her findings by suggesting the remains were animal bones without proper evidence.

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It is for this reason that we return to the places of the findings because we know that they do not do it with the love that we mothers do because we have the need.