Pubdate: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 Source: Brownsville Herald, The (TX) Copyright: 2012 The Brownsville Herald Contact: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/sections/contact/ Website: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1402 Author: Patricia Lopez Cited: Caravan for Peace: http://www.caravanforpeace.org/caravan/ MOTHER TALKS OF LOSING FOUR SONS Four sons of Maria Herrera Magdalena are missing. "Two of my sons disappeared on August 28, 2008, in the state of Guerrero," she said Thursday in a visit to the Rio Grande Valley. "And after two years I again have the same thing happen. Two more sons have disappeared." Herrera Magdalena is part of the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity that is traveling across the United States to promote bilateral efforts to end the drug violence in Mexico and along the border. On Thursday, Brownsville was one of the caravan's two stops in the Rio Grande Valley. The caravan began in Tijuana, Mexico, and is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Sept. 12. Traveling with Herrera Magdalena is a fifth son, Juan Carlos Trujillo Herrera. The mother said in addition to her sons, 15 others from her town in Guerrero have disappeared. She addressed a crowd Thursday in Alamo, telling them why she and others were traveling with the caravan. "At this time we are not fighting for our own but for each and every one of the children of the people who are here," she said. Their hope is to stop the violence, she said. "We do not want more people to go through the pain that we have been going through," she said. Another woman, Leticia Mora Nieto, approached a reporter to show a photograph of a young woman. Mora Nieto said it was her daughter. "I come from Atizapan in the state of Mexico," she said. "I am with the Caravan for Peace searching for justice." Her daughter disappeared a year and four months ago, she said. "She is 24 years old and the truth is, we have not had much of an answer," she said. "People do not know what it is to live with this pain." Her life, she said, has completely changed. "My life is a different one. My family is already broken. I am over here and they are over there," said Mora Nieto, who spoke with great anxiety. "I am very frightened because nowadays you see a lot of people being smuggled. Daughters are taken into prostitution. I am in this country because there are many American clients and they go across the border for those services," she said of her efforts to bring change. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom