COLECTIVES
¨Since the end of 2019, in a very complicated context due to the simultaneous pandemics of Covid-19 and violence, fifteen new search groups have been formed in the state. This adding to two groups that had already been mobilizing for a decade to demand truth and justice…¨
As of September 30, 2022, according to data obtained through citizen consultation with the Guanajuato State Attorney General's Office, there are 3,331 missing persons [2]. Currently, within the 17 groups formed in the state, there are more than 900 families integrated into these civil organizations.
There were 10 collectives that joined this project: Buscadoras Guanajuato, ¿Dónde están? Acámbaro, Proyecto de Búsqueda, Luz y Justicia, Salamanca Unidos Buscando Desaparecidos, Justicia y Esperanza, A tu encuentro, Hasta Encontrarte, Buscando con el Corazón and Madres Guerreras de León
[1] Gómez, Z, Recipe Book for Memory, Guanajuato, FONCA, 2021, Mexico.
[2] Guanajuato State Attorney General's Office. Specialized Prosecutor for Crimes in Forced Disappearance and Disappearance Committed by Private Parties. Response to the request for information 11209390010322. León, Guanajuato. October 19, 2022.
ZAHARA GÓMEZ LUCINI
Photographer and Project Director
In her work, Zahara seeks to explore the stories of political-social violence that cross the territories. She has spent years working on the issue of forced disappearance in different geographies. For this she uses archival research, collaborates with civil human rights organizations and conducts field work. She wants to investigate what is originally incomprehensible and that is claimed through the reconstruction of collective memory.
Her collaboration with the rastreadoras del Fuerte began in 2016.
ALEJANDRA DÍAZ
Project Coordinator
As part of her work, she accompanies groups and families with a missing loved one. She has been linking with local, national and international civil society organizations to promote training that provides searchers with regulatory, live search and forensic tools.
Since 2020, on the same path with groups, search families and other solidarity companions, she has been developing cultural projects with a social impact that have made visible the problem of disappearance.
Her collaboration has generated networks and spaces of trust for searching families to find dialogue, empathy and support in their work as human rights defenders.
DANIELA REA
(Irapuato, 1982) is a journalist and author of the books _Nadie les pidió perdón. Historias de impunidad y resistencia_ (2015), _La Tropa. Por qué mata un soldado_ (2019) and editor of the book _Ya no somos las mismas y aquí sigue la guerra_ (2020). She directed the documentary _No sucumbió la eternidad_.
She received the 2018 National Journalism Award, the Gabo Award from the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation in 2017 and 2019, and the 2021 German Journalism Award, among others. She is interested in working on the tensions between horror and beauty and the construction of listening spaces.
CLARISA MOURA
Clarisa is a designer in Visual Communication, Cultural Manager and Director of Vertigo Galería. Her work is carried out in three large areas: Management of interdisciplinary cultural projects, with a gender and community perspective; curatorship and management of contemporary graphics exhibitions; and editorial projects of graphic identity.
Tai La Bella Damsky
Tai is a cultural producer, public relations officer and manager of public training projects in Mexico and other Latin American countries.
She has collaborated with cultural festivals such as Hay Festival and with different organizations such as the UN, Civic Proposal, Mexico Evalúa and the Paris Forum on Peace leading social campaigns.