Sheinbaum announces 6 'immediate' actions to combat Mexico's missing persons crisis

Delia Quiroa points out that the government is trying to create the impression that they are opposition groups and are driven by political parties, which she strongly rejects.

Strengthening the mechanisms for the search and identification of missing persons “is a task of the State”, and in response to this, President Claudia Sheinbaum will present tomorrow a series of initiatives to reform the General Law on Forced Disappearances of Persons, Disappearances Committed by Individuals and the National Search System, advanced the Assistant Secretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, Arturo Medina.

Sheinbaum announces 6 'immediate' actions to combat Mexico's missing persons crisis

As the discovery of a so-called “extermination camp” in the state of Jalisco continues to provoke horror in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday announced six “immediate” actions against the crime of disappearance. At her morning press conference, Sheinbaum declared that “attending to the problem of missing persons” — there are more than 100,000 in Mexico — is a “national priority” for her government. Sheinbaum committed to six “immedia…

Mexico City, 18 Mar (EFE).- The National Commission for the Search of Missing Persons (CNB) of Mexico will be strengthened with drones and other technologies as georadars to address the crisis of disappearances following the discovery of an alleged drug trafficking extermination camp in Jalisco, the state of the west of the country. “The capacities of the National Commission for Search will be strengthened with more staff, with more technology t…

Visits: 0 Through warnings and “suggestions” to journalists and the media, President Claudia Sheinbaum demonstrated that her government seeks to build an official version of what happened in Teuchitlán that denies the existence of extermination camps and only recognizes that it is a “training camp.” This, clearly, because recognizing an extermination camp implies admitting the terrorist nature of the cartels, something she is not willing to acce…

“Yes, they hacked my phone,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum at the morning conference on March 17, 2025, a couple of days after The New York Times exposed the event. Sheinbaum also revealed that Apple would have alerted him to the attack, which he had kept laughing. The Mexican head of state spying is not a minor issue or a private matter. It should not be a joke that any actor – state or non-state, foreign or national – has had access to info…