Searching for Mexico’s disappeared – a photo essay

More than 40,000 people are missing in Mexico following a wave of violence – and some who have gone looking for them have disappeared too

Maria Herrera is scraping at the earth on a hill in the town of Huitzuco, in southern Mexico, looking for the mounds or sunken spots that indicate a decaying corpse.

At 70 years old, Herrera is hoping against all odds to find her four missing sons – two who disappeared in 2008, and two who vanished in 2010 looking for their brothers.

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