Overview

• FGJES officers accompanied Madres Buscadoras de Sonora during the mid-August operation and transferred charred human remains to Servicios Periciales for forensic analysis.
• The search collective reported finding six burned vehicles and at least two charred bodies on slopes between Sáric and El Sásabe.
• State prosecutors say only three severely deteriorated vehicles were discovered along the access trail, contradicting activists’ count.
• Led by Ceci Patricia Flores, the group plans to return to the remote border site because they believe additional victims remain unaccounted for.
• Cerro El Chile sits within a long-standing trafficking and violence corridor where abandoned wrecks and human remains frequently surface.