ABSTRACT
According to recently released governmental data, more than 87,000 persons were disappeared or not found in Mexico as at April 2021. Disappearances have occurred in the country since at least the late 1960s, with the vast majority of them still unpunished. In this chapter, I analyse the battles for memory around the disappeared, focusing the debate on two memorials: the Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita in Mexico City, created by the Eureka! Committee, and the memorial in Allende, Coahuila, built by the local government in conjunction with the Alas de Esperanza organisation. These two memorials illustrate the narratives and counternarratives around violence, and in particular around the disappeared, which have been in the Mexican public space for over 40 years.
