The Families United Against Torture and for Human Rights that we accompany in Frayba are made up of people who have achieved their freedom and follow a process of searching for justice and truth; as well as relatives of survivors of torture in detention, mostly women, grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, aunts who, out of love, promote justice for their relatives. Those who make up Familias Unidas come from the municipalities of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, La Concordia, Pichucalco, Jiquipilas, Palenque, Playas de Catazajá, Teopisca, Villaflores, Chilón, Cintalapa, Venustiano Carranza, Huimanguillo, and Tabasco.

The survivors, as well as their families, have reflected that torture is part of a State strategy, with clear methods to generate physical and mental pain, to generate fear and terror, break the social and solidarity fabric, intimidate the population and , as a form of control, to inhibit defense and justice actions.

At Frayba for 32 years we have accompanied relatives and victims of acts of torture. Governments of all colors have passed, constitutional and legal reforms too, but illegal detentions accompanied by acts of torture continue to be the main investigation method of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Chiapas, simulating justice, filling the prisons with victims of human rights violations.