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Latino USA

A Mother's Endless Search for Her Missing Son

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with Lucía Díaz Genao, a mother who became a leader in the fight to search and find the disappeared in Mexico.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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because your support keeps our voices on the year. And you know what I have to say?

1:01.0

Notevayas, gracias. If I find him and I don't find the others, I'm not going to be happy. I'm not going to be complete.

1:17.0

From Futura Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inu Hosa. Today activist Lucia Diaz-Nau.

1:30.0

She's a mother who became a leader in the fight to search and find the disappeared in Mexico.

1:40.0

Lucia Diaz-Hinnau is a former teacher. She lived a quiet and pretty much happy life in the seaside state of Veracruz in southern Mexico.

1:51.0

But then in 2013, her world was turned upside down overnight. That year, her

1:59.8

29-year-old son, Louise Guillermo, a popular DJ, didn't return home. He had been

2:06.6

kidnapped. I just collapsed. It was it was horrible because it's like this feeling, this complete realization that he's

2:20.5

missing. And so, given the inaction of the Mexican authorities,

2:27.0

Lucy decided she had to do something.

2:30.0

That would be the beginning of her tireless search for her son, a quest that is now over 10 years old.

2:38.0

It's my son. I mean, how can I say I give up?

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