La búsqueda de personas en tiempos de pandemia. Desaparición forzada y resistencias colectivas

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the consequences of the pandemic in the search of collectives for disappeared persons in Mexico before the strategy of the Mexican State to pause, signal and cancel the participation of family members in the search processes. Based on the accompaniment of the Colectivo Sabuesos Guerreras A. C., we analyze the context of the pandemic, as well as the responses given by groups and relatives of disappeared persons. The methodology used in the article is documentary and qualitative, focused on interviews and discussions, as well as meetings with representatives of groups and human rights centers, and on documentary sources reviews. The pandemic has raised new challenges and new forms of intervention and involvement of popular sectors while searching for the disappeared ones. The socio-sanitary situation also mobilizes other forms of knowledge production that urge to tie previous knowledge, practical experience and the search for information to make visible the ways in which the violations of human rights is not suspended by government decisions, but, on the contrary, is intensified and worsened during the sanitary contingency. In this sense, this work makes possible not only the thinking on the importance of family groups in the search for disappeared persons, but also the presentatio of the logic of governance based on a state of exception, reduplicating the grievance for certain sectors of the population.