Women embrace during a support group meeting at a church in this undated photo. According to Isabel Aguilera of Catholic Relief Service Latin America, the pandemic exacerbated certain tensions, which led to an increase in violence against women. Photo: OSV News/Silverlight, courtesy CRS. With more than 135,000 people reported missing in Mexico, groups of so-called madres buscadoras (Spanish for “searching mothers”) have emerged across the Latin American nation and have become a powerful social movement. A major march is scheduled to take place on August 30 in Hermosillo, the capital and largest city in Mexico’s northwestern Sonora state,…
