{"id":617927,"date":"2018-08-24T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=617927"},"modified":"2018-08-25T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T03:30:57","slug":"lost-on-the-border-a-decade-later-a-man-finds-his-fathers-remains-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/08\/lost-on-the-border-a-decade-later-a-man-finds-his-fathers-remains-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost on the border: A decade later, a man finds his father’s remains on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victor Barajas \/ for Reveal<\/p>

Eliseo C\u00e1rdenas S\u00e1nchez holds a photo of his father, Eliseo C\u00e1rdenas Zetina, near the border fence in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico.<\/p><\/div>\n

Eliseo C\u00e1rdenas S\u00e1nchez was browsing Facebook late one night in March when he landed on a series of photos: snapshots of his father\u2019s identification card and a small pile of bones.<\/p>\n

C\u00e1rdenas S\u00e1nchez suddenly realized he likely was looking at all that was left of his father, Eliseo C\u00e1rdenas Zetina, who disappeared after trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was 2 or 3 in the morning, and I called the number that was posted with the photographs,\u201d said C\u00e1rdenas S\u00e1nchez, who lives in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, a Mexican city near El Paso, Texas. Soon he was talking with Cesar Ortigoza, the man who found his father\u2019s remains in the Arizona desert.<\/p>\n

Ortigoza lives in Vista, California, and helped found Los Armadillos, a volunteer group of about 15 people who scour the southern border to find people who are lost or have died crossing into the United States. Los Armadillos is one of a handful of similar groups that have a prominent presence on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n