“Wherever you are, I want you to know” Letters from families who are still searching for their loved ones in Latin America

The letters put these consequences into words and show how absence reaches into the most intimate spaces of family life: family celebrations, an empty seat at the table or a voice that is no longer heard. 

In Mexico, Lupita Mendoza, the wife of Alfonso, who has been missing since 2024, recalls the sound that announced his arrival home: “Our home was left waiting for that sound we knew so well: the air brakes on your lorry signalling that you were on your way home.”

In Brazil, Camila Gadelha, daughter of Marla, who has been missing since 2001, writes about the grandchildren her mother never had the chance to meet: “I’ve imagined you so many times running around with your grandchildren, making up games, building blanket forts in the living room and hiding Easter eggs all over the garden. They have the best grandmother in the world.”

“My son, I want you to know that during the first few days after you went missing, I did not move from the door, because I thought you would come home at any moment. And so the days, months and years went by,” writes Yenny Aponte, the mother of Gabriel, a Venezuelan who has been missing in Colombia since 2020.

In El Salvador, Verónica Tepa, the wife of Rigoberto, who has been missing since 2020, tries to answer her daughter’s questions: “Our daughter Merari is in second grade. She is very clever, and she keeps asking me about you—if you’ve abandoned us. I canʼt answer that; I just tell her ‘no’, that you love us.”. 

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