2024-07-09 15:34:48
Las disappearances in Mexico They are one of the most controversial issues of the president’s administration Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and that has caused various groups of seeking mothers they call for justice
According to National Registry of Missing Persons y Not Located (RNPDNO) so far in 2024, the country has recorded an average of one thousand missing persons per month.
TResearch reported that, in June alone, the number of missing Mexicans reached 1,199 and that in the first half of this year, the disappearances closed with six thousand 257 cases.
In history, 2023 was the year with the most reports of missing personsclosing with 10,282 not found.
However, official data indicate that by mid-2024, 50,518 people have been reported missing and 90 thousand 150 that were located.
NOW THEY TAKE MINORS
The entities with the most cases are Mexico state (10,501), Nuevo León (6,135), Mexico City (4,849), Jalisco (3,553) and Veracruz (3,121).
In this context, activist Elva Rivas, from Renacer Nuevo León, warns, for example, that “indeed, there has been an increase in disappearances in the state, especially younger youth are being taken away. Before, it was 17 or 18 years old, but now they are taking children as young as 12 years old.”
He acknowledged that, in part, the situation is, above all, for security reasons, “But I also feel that parents have a lot of influence, familiar surroundings”.
He recalled the case of a minor who was recruited by crime due to the great need his family had, “although many times it is not because they want to, it is because of the good or bad”.
So far this year, said Elva Rivas, there have been more than 300 people missing; “What is happening more is taking young people to commit crimes; in fact they are taking them to another state, to Tamaulipas, we have already confirmed this.”
“It has happened a lot in high schools where they come and try to distract them with a fight, something that draws their attention, then they form a little ball of kids and they go by and they pick them up,” said the seeker.
He explained that on social networks they also invite them to work earning high amounts of money, even they stop studying And they leave, because, in addition, if they say no, they are forced to do so anyway, and without any benefit, such as visiting their family from time to time.
Finally, activist Elva Rivas He warned that right now, if the parents are distracted, their children disappear.
OTHER CASES
The Veracruz State Commission has intensified the search for a family that disappeared in the port of Veracruz.
Since June 27, contact with the father, mother and children has been lost, so their situation has been reported and a search file has been created.
Another case that went viral was that of Influencer Fernando Ortega Arenasacquaintance DimeYao, 27 years old, who disappeared on June 28 and was found dead days later, although no further details were released.
Yaritza Karely Arellano Hernandez and Vianey Janitzets Lopez Peralta have been missing for two months in Monterrey, Nuevo León, the second entity with the most cases of missing persons in the country during the first quarter of 2024.
They ask to display posters in public squares in Acapulco
Members of the Memory, Truth and Justice collective carried out the 27th edition of the traveling exhibition “Faces of impunity” in it Acapulco Port ZócaloGuerrero, where they praised the achievements of the families searching for their loved ones.
They called on more activists to redouble their efforts to make visible the problems surrounding the disappearance of people in Mexico before the country’s new leaders and called on people to take to the streets to protest and show the faces of their missing relatives at every exhibition.
“We are here to defend our right to life and to search for our missing persons,” they said.
to the measures of non-repetition and so many other rights that the authorities deny us because we still do not know but that We are getting to know each other little by little by joining the demand for its compliance,” says the statement.
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