By then, it was late in the night, and neighbors had gathered outside her house. And in the collective, that is what we do most. She sifts through photos of body parts at the morgue, hoping to find a tattoo that matches her son’s. It is also reported that he stands as number one on the DEA's most-wanted list. Officers told her she had to file a complaint about Jorge’s disappearance. Kristina Goetz is the narrative editor at The Courier Journal and lead editor on the project "El Mencho's American Empire." Another day, and I did not find him. “Silvia, they took El Negro!” she heard the woman say. Silvia Morán thinks Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación took her son. Four others were kidnapped from the same neighborhood. Some to work for the cartel, others because they knew something they shouldn’t. US: Michigan expects voting results sooner than planned, US: Miami 'will not tolerate' violence on Election Day, 2020 US Election Day: Americans abroad also have vote, Turkey should try to mitigate quake losses: Opp. But she thought such kidnappings were one in a million — just people mixed up with drugs. Silvia called Locatel, a government office, to ask if Jorge had been booked in jail or if the Red Cross knew his whereabouts. “When I have time, I write something different every day. Resist, mi negrito. Because it's here, Karol Suarez & Kristina Goetz, Courier Journal, One mother thinks CJNG is to blame for her son's disappearance. Months go by, and you can’t find them. No mysterious money arriving in an envelope to hint he was alive. El Mencho — CJNG’s leader — has “zero concern for human life,” Donahue said from his Mexico City office. This cartel has plagued hundreds of Mexican mothers as their kids have disappeared. It can be found in small towns and unexpected places from the suburbs of Tacoma, Washington, and the sandy beaches of Gulfport, Mississippi, to the hills of North Carolina and Kentucky horse country. She ran outside. “If my son is alive, if he is watching or listening to this — or someone knows where he is — please tell me where my son is. There’s only one prosecutor for missing persons cases in all of Jalisco, she said, and the official in that job has changed three times since Jorge went missing. Silvia knows no one refuses the cartels and gets away with it. "I share my son’s picture every day,” Silvia said of her Facebook posts. I’m not interested in anything else. “What has helped me most are the people who come behind me — helping mothers like me who do not know what to do,” Silvia said. His photographs are part of the multimedia work, “Disappeared,” also published in El Universal, which won the Ortega y Gasset Prize. “They showed us the pictures, but it wasn’t him,” she said. Romero on the right. “If a mother calls you at dawn, you have to listen to her. A miniature tsunami hit coastal areas of Turkey that was triggered by an earthquake in the Aegean Sea, according to the head of Bogazici... TRIPOLI, Libya Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Special to Courier Journal. Over the next three months, Silvia had no news. People speculated that he had either succumbed to health complications or was shot. She covers social-political issues in the region, including presidential elections, civil unrest, Central American migration, natural disasters, the environment, travel and sports. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denied Monday that the notorious drug lord “El Mencho” is dead. It seems like every few days, authorities find bodies in holes, people in plastic bags. There was no ransom demand, no phone call from the kidnappers. In his home country, he has covered the armed uprisings of Michoacán and the recent Central American exodus. That at that moment they tell you all those things?”. Jorge wasn’t carrying a cellphone, so that made geolocation impossible. "All that is happening, lies and false news. “You know you’re alive because you listen to your heart and see the light of day, but we are gone.”. His family had always called Jorge that because his skin was so dark. Silvia was frantic because she’d already seen the report on the news. The day passes, and hope continues to fall. “What did he do to you? The current government is known for its non-aggressive approach to combating organized crime. The next day, the prosecutor’s office called to say Silvia should go to the morgue. He was working to become a truck driver to support his only son. As a Catholic, Silvia is left with aching worry that if her son is dead, his soul won’t rest until he’s buried in holy ground. There’s no way to know for sure. He has already heard it.”. He also documented the Syrian conflict in 2017. Silvia has so many unanswered questions. That was the last time anyone from the Atemajac del Valle neighborhood saw Jorge Morán alive. “You wonder: Where are the missing?” Silvia said. QUERETARO, Mexico. What I want is to find my son — alive or dead — but to find him. The death of her second husband — Jorge’s father — from the bullet of a neighbor high on drugs. With so many missing, police are overwhelmed. In the state of Jalisco, where Silvia and Eduardo live, violence is an everyday worry. The name Chávez on his left arm. He said: "It was found that it was a rumour, that what was mentioned did not happen, that he had died or had been arrested are lies. "What we want is for there to be peace, tranquility. CJNG, headed by an elusive drug kingpin known as El Mencho, is maybe the most ruthless. She is a mother who is going through the same thing.”. Karol is a field producer, reporter and a social media content producer. The day Jorge was taken, Sylvia had to wait for store owners to deliver groceries and return before she could leave. “Where can so many people be? “But he already knows he is missing. If he’s hungry, and if they beat him.”. That’s the day to day of us. Cristopher Rogel Blanquet is a Mexican photojournalist who worked for The Courier Journal on this project. And they sit at the morgue when a mother sifts through photos of body parts looking for her child. They offer one another support, help with legal advice. “No one is exempt from this,” said Eduardo Fernández, another member of For the Love of Them. And to Mexico City. Another day, and I did not find him. In her tiny, one-room apartment in a boarding house in Guadalajara, Silvia sat close to her boyfriend, Eduardo Moreno, last summer as she recounted the day her son was taken — and all the other tragedies that have befallen her family. “Don’t worry,” she told herself. Silvia belongs to the support group Por Amor a Ellxs, or, For the Love of Them. As she waited, she cried. “Now the child asks all the time where his father is because he already packed.”. But she doesn’t. I love you very much, and I will never stop looking for you. Still, narco groups sing about his enthusiasm for motorbikes and cockfights. Copyright 2020 Anadolu Agency. So everywhere Silvia goes she wears a laminated placard with her son’s photo dangling from her neck. Too many sons in Mexico have disappeared like Silvia’s Jorge — 7,000 in Jalisco alone. It was an armed command.”. He was wearing a gray, short-sleeved shirt with buttons, jeans and Puma sneakers, she told them. Silvia believes it was CJNG that took her Jorge. “He would have found the way.”. Jorge had been with a cousin and a friend just three blocks from home. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. He’d been beaten so badly that he had little memory. Better known as CJNG, this cartel has plagued hundreds of mothers like Silvia in Mexico as they’ve watched their children disappear. She reported from Mexico for The Courier Journal on this project. A neighbor saw it all from her window and watched the crew beat Jorge unconscious. But that’s what her sister-in-law was telling her. She’s also known other women who have found pieces of their sons at the morgue. Cartel expert and ex-US federal marshal, Robert Almonte, told Daily Star Online: “(The reports) seem to be credible. 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