There’s a photograph of Jael Monserrat Uribe from when she was 10, standing in the snow on Parliament Hill during a trip to Canada, a place she’d dreamed of visiting because she heard it was the home of Winnie the Pooh, her mother said.

But that was another life.

Jacqueline Palmeros wore a white T-shirt with a different photo of her daughter on a recent Wednesday. She is a young woman in this image; a tightly cropped portrait, hand pressed against her cheek, framed by the words, “I am my daughter’s voice.”

The photo was used in a missing persons poster published by Mexico City’s Attorney General’s Office after she disappeared at 21 years old, on July 24, 2020 — one of the tens of thousands who have gone missing across a country convulsed by years of cartel and state-fuelled violence.

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