Mexico disappearances reach record high of 100,000 amid impunity [View all]
Source: BBC
Mexico disappearances reach record high of 100,000 amid impunity
By Vanessa Buschschlüter
BBC News
17 May 2022
The number of people reported as disappeared in Mexico is at a record high of 100,000, figures suggest.
Government data, which goes back to 1964, shows that almost all the disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his "war on drugs".
The United Nations has called it "a human tragedy of enormous proportions".
Many of the missing are victims of organised crime and hardly any of those responsible are punished.
The latest update to the national registry of missing people kept by Mexico's attorney general's office shows that over the past two years, the number of disappeared has risen from 73,000 to more than 100,000.
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