'We must embrace this pain that runs through us as a state'

The cases attract social attention for a while and then fade away, but they actually change the way citizens view disappearances, the academic explained. Credit: Ismael Ramírez.

Each news story about disappearances marks a new milestone: the three film students deprived of their liberty in 2018, the González Moreno brothers in 2021, the Villaseñor Romo family the same year, the five friends from Lagos de Moreno in 2023, and the Izaguirre Ranch in 2024.