Extradition delay is response for Mexico supporting Palestine: Israeli official Why should we help Mexico? official asks about case of Ayotzinapa investigator
Published on Friday, July 16, 2021
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A request to Israel for the extradition of a former official accused of compromising the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero in 2014 is being delayed as punishment for Mexico’s support of Palestine, says a senior Israeli official.
Mexico has requested the extradition of Tomás Zerón, head of the now-defunct Criminal Investigation Agency during the 2012-2018 government of former president Enrique Peña Nieto. He is accused of abduction, torture and tampering with evidence in the investigation into the September 2014 disappearance of the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college students, all of whom were presumably killed.
Mexico says 85,000 have disappeared since 2006 Today 02:35 am JST Today | 06:48 am JST MEXICO CITY
The number of people who have disappeared in Mexico since the start of the country’s drug war now stands at 85,006, the government reported Thursday.
The figure was part of a government report on searches for those who have disappeared between the start of 2006 and April 7.
Assistant Secretary for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said the largest number of bodies found so far in the current administration have been in the states of Jalisco, Sinaloa. Colima, Guanajuato and Sonora.
Encinas said that clandestine grave sites continue to be found, “due to the increase in confrontations between criminal organizations in several regions of the country.”
Mexico says 85,000 disappeared since 2006
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 8, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT
MEXICO CITY The number of people who have disappeared in Mexico since the start of the country’s drug war now stands at 85,006, the government reported Thursday.
The figure was part of a government report on searches for those who have disappeared between the start of 2006 and April 7.
Assistant Secretary for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said the largest number of bodies found so far in the current administration have been in the states of Jalisco, Sinaloa. Colima, Guanajuato and Sonora.
Encinas said that clandestine grave sites continue to be found, “due to the increase in confrontations between criminal organizations in several regions of the country.”
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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.
Read more about Nearly 7,000 Mexicans reported as disappeared in 2020, 22% fall since 2019 on Business Standard. 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%