Mums still pining for missing sons

People looking at the Memorial for the Detained and Disappeared at the General Cemetery in Santiago on Aug 30, the day in which Chilean President Gabriel Boric presented the National Search Plan for the Disappeared to find missing victims of the 1973-1990 dictatorship. Sept 11 marks the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat led by Pinochet against then president Salvador Allende. — AFP

LUZ Encina, 94, sets out from San Antonio in Chile in a small, rented boat clutching a fistful of red flowers to cast into the Pacific Ocean, which she believes to be the final resting place of her son.

Mauricio Jorquera was only 19 when he became one of more than 1,400 people to disappear under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet five decades ago.