Where are Mexico s disappeared? Many have been in government graves all along Kate Linthicum, Maya Averbuch © (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Unidentified bodies are buried in a mass grave in Tijuana in 2018. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
After hearing that her 44-year-old son had been murdered in downtown Tijuana, Guadalupe Aragón Sosa went searching for him.
She gave police a sample of her DNA, but they said they found no hits when they checked it against a database of unidentified bodies.
She spent hours at the local morgue, flipping through black-and-white photographs of unclaimed corpses, but her Carlos was not among them.
Where are Mexico s disappeared? Many have been in government graves all along
latimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from latimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mexico Sends Remains to Austria in Missing Students Case
courthousenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courthousenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MGN
MEXICO CITY, Mexico Nearly 7,000 Mexicans were formally reported as disappeared in 2020, though that was a 22% decrease from a year earlier, the country’s top human rights official says.
Assistant Secretary for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said the number of clandestine graves found dropped by third last year and the number of bodies recovered in those graves 1,086 fell by 18%.
More than half of those recovered bodies came in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, where the Jalisco New Generation cartel has been involved in violent territorial disputes. One municipality, El Salto, Jalisco, was the source of 189 bodies last year.
Identifying and returning those bodies to their families continues to be a struggle. Of the 2,395 bodies recovered since the current administration took power in December 2018, 39% have been identified and nearly 22% returned to relatives.