a sign with details of sara cruz's son - jose rodolfo - hangs in front of her house - in case anyone can help her find him. the last time she saw him, it was a tuesday evening. she had just gotten home from work and he asked her if she would take him to a local motorcycle show. jose spent afternoons working in his uncle's mechanical shop in the front of the house they rode to the show on jose rodolfo's bike it was here in this small plaza - just a short ride from their house in the town of tierra blanca. when sara went to the police they told her she needed to wait 3 days to file a report. so she started searching herself- something as simple as looking on facebook for that, not authorities all her money now goes to searching for jose - traveling to different places around veracruz - to meet prosecutors searching for possible leads - or worse to see if bodies discovered in mass graves...might be him. it's left sara a single mother, almost in debt. states like veracruz - where sara lives - are key areas of control for criminal groups - it's an important transit point both for central