Mexican Families Lead Vigilante Search for Cartel Victims Amid Rising Disappearances

Under the relentless sun of Jalisco state, Raúl Servín digs through the earth with a team of volunteers in a desperate search for the missing. His son vanished eight years ago, another casualty of Mexico's spiraling narco-violence. Servín is among thousands of relatives who refuse to wait for authorities, taking matters into their own hands in the hunt for answers. They arm themselves with metal rods and shovels, calling themselves the Guerreros Buscadores — the “Searching Warriors.” This is not