On the week of the tenth anniversary of the most recognized disappearance case in Mexican history, the case of 43 disappeared students in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWGEF) invites the public to Empty Graves, Empty Promises: A Photographic Journey Into Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis and the Role of the U.S. A photographic tribute to the over 116,000 victims of enforced disappearances in Mexico since 1952, this exhibit tells the story of those disappeared and those tirelessly searching for them.

Empty Graves, Empty Promises features fifteen photographs of families and survivors of the disappeared in Veracruz, Mexico, taken by survivor and artist Manuel Bayo Gisbert. Learn about the links between disappearances, organized crime, and the U.S.-Mexico human rights dynamic through the photographs of Bayo Gisbert, the testimonies of Antonio Tizapa and María de Jesús Salinas, both parents with missing children, and the experience of Omar Gómez Trejo, former prosecutor of the Ayotzinapa case.