Ants Among Giants by Alicia de los Ríos Merino

This book is the result of research grounded in the right to truth and the right to memory. Both rights help bring to light the facts and circumstances under which human rights violations were committed, which means coming to know both the victims and the perpetrators of those crimes. Because in grave human rights violations, alongside justice, it is essential that truth and memory exist, together with mechanisms of reparation for victims and guarantees of non-repetition. The right to truth means recognizing that victims and society alike have a right to know.

This research is essential in a context of violence such as Mexico's, where at least 122,293 people have been disappeared. In this context, according to the National Registry of Disappeared and Missing Persons (RNPDNO), 25 children and adolescents between the ages of 0 and 17 are reported disappeared and missing every day. Beyond that, the country has recorded more than 250,000 people murdered over the past 17 years, hundreds of thousands forcibly displaced, and at least 11 women killed in femicides each day. This violence has grave repercussions for children, who have become an unheard and invisible population whose rights have been violated in the extreme.