Overview
- Indigenous residents in Aquila held a march and mass, and families set up memorials in Mexico City and Xalapa to demand the safe return of Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz.
- The Interior Ministry said interagency mechanisms for investigation, search, victim care, and protection remain active with participation from relatives and their legal representatives.
- UN specialists on disappearances and on business and human rights urged effective searches and prosecutions and noted the case’s link to a mining dispute involving Ternium.
- Relatives called on Ternium to cooperate with searches and accountability efforts and highlighted the independent MIRHAR mechanism, backed by the IACHR and UN OHCHR, which gained access to case files after litigation.
- Authorities have reported arrests of alleged operatives, including Oscar Fernando “El Grande,” while families and community leaders pressed for transparency, identification of intellectual authors, and concrete investigative progress.