Sheinbaum Announces Reforms to Strengthen Search for Missing Persons

By Ivonne Valdés and Max Saltman, CNN Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called for a national biometric database to help resolve forced disappearances on the US-Mexico border. “What is the simplest way to identify a person?” Sheinbaum told reporters at her press conference Friday. “A fingerprint,” she responded. “When you go to open your bank account, if it’s through an app, they ask for your face,” Sheinbaum said. “Banks already have your iri…

President Claudia Sheinbaum promised that the National Search Commission (CNB) will have a budget increase, although she did not specify the amount.At the morning conference, the president, who said that the case of the Teuchitlan training camp, Jalisco, does not represent the “Aquiles heel” of her government, reported that as part of the strengthening of the CNB, an analysis is carried out to know what equipment is needed to make the search for…

Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she will present reforms to strengthen the search for missing persons in Mexico following the Jalisco controversy.

The Federal Executive will send an initiative to reform the National Search Commission and the General Law on Disappearances. However, in a country with more than 116 thousand missing persons and an estimated 90 thousand unidentified bodies, search groups demand real actions, not simulations Text: Alejandro Ruiz Photo: Isabel Briseño / Archivo Pie de Página CITY DE MEXICO.

‘We’ve waited too long’: Bill to create an Indigenous missing persons…

A young woman holds up a sign calling for an end to violence against Indigenous people on May 5, 2022 at the state Capitol. Photo by Gloria Gomez | Arizona MirrorYolanda Bydonie remembers how difficult and frustrating it was to not only file a missing person report for her cousin but also to spread the [...]

For years, decades, family members and groups searching for missing persons have worked hard, proposed and pressured the authorities to create and implement laws, reforms, protocols, mechanisms, systems, platforms and databases to make a professional, rapid and expeditious investigation of the whereabouts of people forced to go away possible and mandatory... Source