Searching Mothers Keep Indefinite Blockade in Cancún Hotel Zone as State Officials Stay Silent

Cancún, Quintana Roo — The Madres Buscadoras collective has held a blockade at kilometer zero of Kukulcán Boulevard in Cancún’s hotel zone since Friday night and has declared it indefinite, after four days without a response from state justice officials.

The sit-in, set up in the lanes leading into the hotel zone, is disrupting traffic on one of the busiest tourist corridors in the municipality of Benito Juárez. Members of the collective say they will not lift the protest until they receive a concrete answer.

María Dolores Patrón Pat, president of the Madres Buscadoras, said no official has approached the encampment since the protest began.

“We have had no contact from any authority; we are still waiting for them to come to this place, where the victims are, waiting for some official to attend to them,” she said.

Group seeks meeting with court and prosecutor’s office

The collective’s central demand is a working meeting with the president of the state Superior Court of Justice and officials from the State Prosecutor’s Office to review the case files of victims of disappearance, homicide and femicide. Patrón Pat said families have submitted everything legally required in each file, but that the authorities’ proceedings are not moving forward.

About 18 people are taking part in the demonstration, and another 15 victims are expected to arrive from Chetumal in the coming hours. Patrón Pat asked residents affected by the road closures for understanding, arguing that a street protest is the only mechanism available to pressure the institutions.

“Nobody lost a bicycle, nobody lost a car; we are talking about things of much greater importance,” she said.