They’re now touring the United States to publicize the unresolved disappearance, and a group of them visited Sonoma County Tuesday.

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Having the Caravana 43 delegation visit Santa Rosa and Sonoma State is a historic cross-cultural events, says Chicano and Latino Studies professor Ron Lopez, one that highlights troubling similarities between our two cultures.

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Angel Ayala (second from left) is briefly overcome while speaking to students and others at Sonoma State Tuesday afternoon. He is flanked by his older brother on the right, and translator Emily Peterson, and two parents--father Estanislao Chocolate, and mother Blanca Velez on the left.

Six and a half months is a very long time to go with no word about her son’s fate or whereabouts, said Blanca Velez, and no satisfactory answers from authorities who have even offered financial settlements to some families—offers that have been uniformly rejected. In spite of all this, she continues to search, and to hold out hope for her Jorge’s eventual safe return.

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