Ecuador’s disappeared: Inside one family’s search for answers

Key points

• While it might be true that the cases are progressing, families of the missing argue they are moving at a snail's pace.
• Since early December, Fault Lines has spent time with families who are pushing for accountability and pleading with the government to learn what happened to their loved ones.
• In some cases, they have spent years without receiving any direct response.
• “It gets harder every time my nephew asks when his father will come home and I don’t have any answers,” said Rosario Villon, whose brother, Jonathan Villon, has been missing for almost a year and a half.
• The 31-year-old father of three was last seen on December 9, 2024, when he left to pick up groceries in his hometown of Guayaquil.