One missing person every hour in Mexico

During the government of the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, One person disappears in Mexico every hourand every year the proportion is increasing, reveals Where the missing goa media outlet specializing in journalistic investigation of disappearances in the country.

And it is that More than 50,000 people have disappeared during Andrés Manuel’s six-year termaccording to the National Registry of Missing Persons and Not Located (RNPDNO) on May 14th, but 11 days after that record, the number had decreased. to 48,870 victims.

In this regard, for Gabriella Citronia member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), the reduction in numbers in the national register By incorporating the locations it results worrying for the lack of transparency with which the process is carried out and the impact it could have on the families of the victims.

He also stressed the importance of the census, since all of the State’s obligations are derived from it.

“If someone is not registered as missing, they will not be searched for, the rights of the family will not be recognized; therefore, that same number would have to be multiplied by the entire universe surrounding missing persons,” he said.

And it is that in the administration of the 4T On average, one person has disappeared every hour in the country, a figure that Doubles the number of disappearances of people who were there during the government of Felipe Calderónwhen the militarization of public security began, occurred 0.49 disappearances per hour, and in that of his successor, Enrique Pena Nietowere 0.64.

Currently, the RNPDNO has registered 114,184 missing persons, meaning that this six-year period accounts for 44% of the total.

Meanwhile, still Today, August 29, the collectives of searching mothers who are holding a sit-in under the flagpole in the Zócalo Mexico City residents said Thursday that they will continue protesting even on Sunday, September 1, when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador delivers his sixth government address.

What are the search mothers in the Zócalo asking for?

The search mother Patricia de la Cruz said in an interview on a radio program that so far They have not had any response from the federal government. qled by AMLO, with whom they seek a meeting and help with their cases.

“They have refused, they are not empathetic, no one is exempt from suffering this situation (…) We will be here (on September 1) the president has to deal with us,” De la Cruz said in an interview.

The searcher mother also assured that although President López Obrador is already leaving, it will be up to the next president, Claudia Sheinbaum, “to be more empathetic with us as mothers and talk to us.”

“There has been no response Neither from López Obrador nor from Sheinbaum“, he said.

Since last year, searching mothers from various groups have demanded that the president López Obrador has refused to receive them at the National Palace, after the president invited the founder of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo of Argentina, Estela de Carloto, to a morning conference. She is part of the fight against the disappearance of people in that country.

When did the search mothers’ sit-in at the Zócalo begin?

On August 18, members of the collectives Desaparecidos Nacional México, the National Collective of Victims March 10 AC and the Union of Collectives of Searching Mothers of Tamaulipas set up a sit-in on the Zócalo square in the capital.

The searching mothers set up tents around the flagpole, from where they accused the government of humiliating them and re-victimizing them in their struggle.

AMLO government achievement: one person disappears every hour in Mexico

A work carried out on the subject by César Martínez indicates that December 1, 2018 —the day AMLO assumed the presidency— and the May 24th of 2023 (in those 1,635 days of government) were registered 42,029 missing in Mexico; an average of 25 people per day.

The highest record of disappearances, they indicate, was reached between 2022 and 2023. If on May 16, 2022, the number of missing persons exceeded 100,000in the following 365 days other ones were added 10,064according to the National Registry of Missing Persons and Not Located (RNPDNO). This means 27 disappearances per day in the last year (until May 2023) with the strategy of “hugs not bullets” of AMLO.

With AMLO there are more missing people than in previous six-year terms

The research details that It is the highest number recorded since 2006, when President Felipe Calderón declared the “war on drugs”and confirms a trend in this administrationtion, where the number of disappearances of the previous six-year terms.

Disappearances continued under the administration of Enrique Pena Nietowhich ended with more than 34,000 victims. This figure, according to data from the RNPDNO, has already been surpassed in this governmentclosing 2022 with more than 37,600 missing people.

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