In the face of state inaction, the UN urges Mexico to take care of its missing persons

The United Nations has just threatened the country, which does nothing to find the 126,000 people murdered by the mafias.

The disappearances that are currently being committed in Mexico “are enforced disappearances,” said Mexican lawyer Santiago Corcuera, former president of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations (UN). He explained that “although they are not the same as those that were committed in the Dirty War, they are,” and accused that “the governments of PAN and the PRI were also denialists, they were alarmed, outraged and rejected th…

The decision of the CED to implement article 34, considering that enforced disappearance occurs in the country as a “widespread or systematic way”, has faced the rejection of the Government. The result of this unprecedented measure will depend on the needs of the Mexican State.

In this regard, the report is concerned about the systematic return of third-country nationals to Mexico.

In the midst of the growing wave of disappearances in Mexico, an initiative that seeks to help in the location of missing persons has generated controversy among search groups. It is the so-called “counsel kit” or Kit “if one day I disappear”, a proposal that, although part of good intentions, has been criticized by relatives of victims and activists, since it exposes the authorities to the responsibility that they have: to look for our missing …

The secretary of the Presidency, Jorge Díaz, reported that the Justice ordered a precautionary measure in the premises of the General Command of the Navy, located in the subsoil of the port of Montevideo, before the possibility that there will be remains of missing persons related to the recent past. In a press conference after the Council of Ministers of this Tuesday 22, Díaz explained that the importance of the issue in itself and, particularl…