“The entire border is a carpet of human remains.” For the last couple of years, I’ve been reaching out to people who use Facebook to track down loved ones who disappeared crossing the desert. Most don’t want to talk to a reporter. This case was different.https://www.revealnews.org/article/lost-on-the-border-a-decade-later-a-man-finds-his-fathers-remains-on-facebook/ …
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The remains were found in March. Mexican authorities inexplicably took 3 months to get a DNA sample to the U.S. The Texas lab that establishes matches is backed up. The Cárdenas family waited 10 years since he went missing. If they’re lucky, they’ll get remains back by December.pic.twitter.com/s16qI4UykJ
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One more thing: These kinds of stories are difficult to illustrate. We didn’t want to only post gruesome images of a skulls and bones. Thank you,
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Los Armadillos went out again, this time looking for 21-year-old Christian de Jesús Terrazas López, who went missing in July. This is the third time they searched for him. The group started at 5a yesterday and found his remains some hours later.
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This story is all over Facebook lost-on-the-border pages and individual profiles I follow. The story is purely chronicled by people who are most affected by it. His family. His community. Those who found him. But it’s completely absent English- and Spanish-language media.
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The story I posted about Eliseo Cárdenas Zetina/Los Armadillos focused on the way people use Facebook as a community news service for those searching for and finding loved ones lost on the border. Too many readers, who I assume didn’t actually read the story, missed that.
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Everyday people, wholly unaffiliated with the state or the media, organically created a loose but vibrant community news service on Facebook. Media are always wondering what FB means for the future of news. But few pay enough attention to vulnerable communities to find out.
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thank you. i just donated. this is heartbreaking
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Yeah the desert is extremely vast and extremely dangerous, it is very easy to die of dehydration or heat stroke if you are not prepared, or have health issues.
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