Overview
- Nanci Estela Godoy, 52, the sole teacher and director of Rural School No. 626 in El Malezal, has been missing since her last family contact on October 7 and a formal missing-person report was filed on October 15.
- Provincial police have mounted an extensive search that uses more than 80 officers, 16 vehicles, 12 horses, four drones and three search dogs to cover flooded tracks, thick malezales and other hard-to-reach terrain.
- The Unidad Fiscal de Investigaciones Concretas (UFIC) in Esquina is directing the probe and has ordered multiple allanamientos while investigators analyze local security-camera footage to reconstruct Godoy’s last movements.
- Two people have been detained in connection with the case and raids were carried out at several homes; the family says one local estancia worker who figures in their complaint stopped appearing for work and is a potential lead.
- Relatives say Godoy would not have left alone and they accuse authorities of a slow technical response, a claim that is driving calls for more forensic resources and greater institutional support for safety on isolated rural routes.