For more than two weeks, the parents of five missing young people have been living inside a Mexican state prosecutor’s office in an attempt to pressure authorities to find their children.
The parents spent the first night sitting on cold plastic chairs. Then they brought mattresses, a microwave oven and a television set inside the government building.
“It’s our home now,” said Columba Arroniz Gonzalez as she heated up some tortillas and soup for her gaunt-looking husband in the patio of the prosecutor’s office in Tierra Blanca, in the eastern state of Veracruz.
Their son, Bernardo Benitez, 25, is among the five young people, including a 16-year-old girl, who disappeared after state police officers detained them in gang-plagued Tierra Blanca on January 11.
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