Carlos Emilio Galvan ten days ago he joined the list of thousands of missing in Sinaloaand to date, his family’s efforts to locate him have been in vain.
The state faces a persistent crisis marked by the constant increase in unlocated people. The situation becomes doubly serious, because the violence directly attacks young people and those who seek the truth: the seeking mothers.
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One of the cases that has raised alerts in recent days is that of Carlos Emilio21 years old, who went to the Terraza Valentino restaurant in Mazatlán, along with her cousins, around 2:30 in the morning on October 5, He separated from them to go to the bathroom and nothing has been heard from him since.
Carlos’s mother raises her voice
The young man’s mother, Brenda Valenzuela Gil, has demanded that Ricardo Velarde, secretary of Sinaloa Economyand whom he points out to be the owner of the establishment where his son disappeared, which Provide information to clarify the case.
“I can only raise my voice and ask them as authorities to expedite the search“Find and give me my son, I ask you to put yourself in my place for a moment,” he said in a video on his social networks.
Carlos is joined by cousins Edwin and Isaac17 and 15 years old respectively, reported missing also in Mazatlán and the same day as the young man, after they left their home, in La Campiña, and have not returned.
The state, with a historic figure that exceeds 5 thousand records of missing and unlocated people in the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDNO), it remains a national red light.
The most of the victims are young menbut the disappearance of women in urban areas like Mazatlán and Culiacán has set off the alarms.
The narcoguerra between Los Chapitos and Los Mayitos has left more than 2 thousand missing in just over a year.
CITA
“I am going through the worst experience of terror that no mother should go through”
BRENDA VALENZUELA GIL,
MOTHER OF CARLOS EMILIO
They demand return with the life of a searching mother
The National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico and the IM-Defensoras They demanded the immediate appearance of the seeking mother, María de los Ángeles Valenzuela, member of the collective Hearts United for the Same Cause.
They detailed that last Sunday, The activist would have been deprived of her freedom by armed individuals in Mazatlánand as of press time there is no official information about his whereabouts.
Meanwhile, the president of the State Human Rights Commission (CEDH), Óscar Loza, described the disappearance of Ángeles as very seriouswho was deprived of his freedom in front of his mother, when they were carrying out daily activities.
In addition, he warned about the vulnerability of independent trackers who search for missing people without official security.
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CITA
“People who look for missing people are now also missing”
Oscar Loza
ECHR President
NUMBERS
2,000
missing people have at least been reported since the start of the drug war in September 2024
500
Unlocated people have been reported in Culiacán this 2025, according to official figures