Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte, narrativas de la ignominia de las heroínas anónimas por su derecho a buscar

Abstract

Las Rastreadoras form a group of women, mothers of the disappeared from the State of Sinaloa in Mexico; They have seven years looking for their children with shovels, picks, and all kinds of resources that they have at hand. They go through roads, desert areas, any space that has a reference or indication that there could be clandestine graves. These brave and fierce women have a covenant that underlies their quest. If any of them die, for whatever reason, the others will search for their child. In the same way, if they find the remains of their family member, the support does not stop, they continue with the others in the fight. The group increases exponentially and the number of remains found also. There are cases where the mother herself has dug the site where her son was buried. Each woman can tell a different story just as painful and heartbreaking, yet each also tells how she joined this contingent and her sense of commitment and social responsibility. Undoubtedly, her profile is that of heroines who work in an anonymity that society feels and wants to make public through new communication resources.