Is the World Cup a reason for Governments to hide accountability behind the wall?

About 150,000 people are missing in Mexico. Across streets of Juarez, Chihuahua, every space within the street walls is being replaced with a picture of a missing person and their information, names of girls, women and men who are being taken away by negative forces of organized crime. As the World Cup is coming, Mexican citizens are fearless and are willing to resist in their search. A desperate search for a loved one with ache and despair of whether the government tries to hide those walls where the portraits’ posse with important missing information.

In this picture from left to right Co-Director Jackie Barragan, Director and writer of “Super High: A Period Piece” Bianca D. Lambert and Celina Galicia director of “Ternura Radical”

Collectively, March 8th and May 10th is the day for all women to unify in strength across the globe and celebrate mother's day. In Mexico, women gather in Zocalo square to chant for justice, respect, freedom of expression, to walk in peace, whether night or day. And they chanted for the authorities to be accountable for injustice and investigation of those missing ones, that almost all cases had remained cold, leading to independent associations like “Guerreros Buscadores (Warrior Searchers)” and “Madres Buscadoras de Sonora (Sonora Searching Mothers)” to take over research. A year ago, Izaguirre ranch was found about an hour from Jalisco west of Mexico’s capital. A ranch located within the borders of Jalisco Cartel operation sites, which was used for scamming recruitment, a place where innocent people had been exterminated and getting there with the intention of searching for or applying for a new job. More than 50 bags and hundreds of shoes were found. A website had collected all the data on those belongings within an online platform for families to relate items cataloged by size or kind: “A donde van los desaparecidos (Where are the missing one’s going too)?” And it’s there to stay and number several families have got to find where they had gone through. The 9th annual Femme Frontera showcased at the Austin Film Society, expanding their mission of storytelling to amplify women and gender-expansive filmmakers.

A series of short films that creatively define fear and illusion onto the screen and life along the border between Mexico and the U.S. and two of the film directors followed up a series of Q&A for the film “Ternura Radical (Radical Tenderness).” A short film about the life of Esmeralda who disappeared in Juarez, Chihuahua at the age of 14 years old, also a close friend of the short film director and art activist of Juarez, Celina Galicia.

And whose father, Jose Luis Castillo, for more than sixteen years assisted the women’s march every May 8th, dedicating his life to the right of accountability for his daughter, because when Esmeralda disappeared, there were cameras around, the kidnappers had a car with plates and so on, the case which the short film “Ternura Radical” it’s dedicated to in memory of Esmeralda. Because they had disappeared once, accountability will not let them disappear twice.