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Verónica López Álvarez sinks a long, T-shaped rod into the soft earth, pulls it out, smells it and screws up her face. Six other women flock around to sniff too, reeling back in horror at a stench like rotting fish. Then it’s action stations. “We’re going to dig here,” says Delfina Herrera Ruíz. “It’s a body.” With their shovels, the women — mostly housewives in their forties and fifties, some manicured and made-up in the sticky morning sun — start sifting the earth with shallow, careful movements. The banter en route to El Teroque Viejo, in Sinaloa in north-west Mexico, has given way to a grim focus.
Then it’s action stations. “We’re going to dig here,” says Delfina Herrera Ruíz. “It’s a body.” With their shovels, the women — mostly housewives in their forties and fifties, some manicured and made-up in the sticky morning sun — start sifting the earth with shallow, careful movements. The banter en route to El Teroque Viejo, in Sinaloa in north-west Mexico, has given way to a grim focus.
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To have gone that long and only finding 68 people. They really need some help.
Then it’s action stations. “We’re going to dig here,” says Delfina Herrera Ruíz. “It’s a body.” With their shovels, the women — mostly housewives in their forties and fifties, some manicured and made-up in the sticky morning sun — start sifting the earth with shallow, careful movements. The banter en route to El Teroque Viejo, in Sinaloa in north-west Mexico, has given way to a grim focus.
The women creating culinary acts of remembrance for Mexico’s missing
The ‘Rastreadoras’ have published a book of recipes with their loved ones’ favourite foods
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To have gone that long and only finding 68 people. They really need some help.
