Why did you do that? The mysterious photo that Luis Miguel posted of his mother Marcela Basteri

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Luis Miguel surprised his 3 million fans who follow him on Instagram sharing a photo of him as a teenager with his mother Marcella Basteri. A very strange gesture considering that the “Sol de México” almost never shows intimate photos on its networks.

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While many were surprised by the mysterious post -which doesn’t have an epigraph-, the singer’s motivations are clear: This Wednesday, May 10, Mother’s Day is celebrated in Mexico.

This is worth remembering Basteri has been missing since 1986 (when the singer was about 16) and little is known about her. There are those who claim that she is dead, but also those who claim that she is still alive.

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The photo of Luis Miguel and Marcela Basteri on the singer's Instagram.

The photo of Luis Miguel and Marcela Basteri on the singer’s Instagram.

The latter case is Miguel Aldanaformer director of Interpol Mexico in the 70s, who assured on a television program that Basteri is alive and has two more children.

“They talked to me and Luis Miguel already knows them (his mother’s other children),” said the former police officer. Though he didn’t provide proof, he stressed that the singer is no longer looking for her mother because he knows she’s alive.

The disappearance of Basteri

The Basteri family saw Marcela for the last time on the morning of Monday 19 August 1986, at the Galilei international airport in Pisa, from where Luis Miguel’s mother would have traveled to Spain to meet the singer again.

The Basteris greeted her with a hug and took pictures before seeing her leave for Madrid. Marcela had not seen her son Luis Miguel for seven months.

Marcela Basteri, Luis Miguel's mother, has mysteriously disappeared.

Marcela Basteri, Luis Miguel’s mother, has mysteriously disappeared.

Immersed in a deep depression due to the failure that had meant not being able to put an end to the exploitation and abuse that Luis Rey exercised on his only 15-year-old son, the Italian packed her bags and left for Italian Tuscany to take refuge in her father’s house . She only took her youngest son. Alex and Luis Miguel were left “in charge” of their father.

However, a call from King Luisito it changed everything. From Spain, her ex-partner contacted her because she needed her signature for “some papers” related to her son’s career.

Marcela, determined not to return to the arms of her ex, accepted the meeting, while setting the condition that her son was present and that they would only talk about the only thing that bound them at that moment: the millionaire fortune that Luis Rey had accumulated. thanks to Luismi’s career and that they were all in the name of the Italian to evade the tax.

The Gallego Basteri family.

The Gallego Basteri family.

The Basteris know that Marcela had actually arrived in Spain because a month after her departure from PisaAt the beginning of September 1986, she telephoned her aunt Adua, the woman who most insisted on finding Marcela and the one who offered the most information about her life and the circumstances of her disappearance.

“We were very worried and finally he called,” Adua told journalist Javier León Herrera, in his book Luis Miguel, the story, which served as the basis for the screenplay of the successful Netflix series about the artist’s life.

“He said he was with Alex and Sergino in the house in Madrid, and that he was going to Chile to meet Mickey (Luis Miguel) there,” Adua recounts her latest conversation with her missing niece.

That was the last time Zia Adua spoke to Marcela. After that, she never heard from her again.

Source: Clarin

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