Groups ask to be heard by appointing relief in the CNB

Jessica Xantomila and Jared Laureles

La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, July 31, 2025, p. 11

More than one hundred groups and relatives of missing persons urged President Claudia Sheinbaum and the Ministry of the Interior to which the appointment of the head of the National Search Commission (CNB) arises from a genuinely collective, transparent and attached process to the general law in the matter.

We will not accept another simulation or profiles that do not guarantee the technical capacity and sensitivity demanded by the crisis of more than 130 thousand missing peoplewarned the National Search Brigade; A light on the CDMX road; Looking for our treasures, Lagos de Moreno, and relatives of Search María Herrera, among others.

They pointed out that the resignation of Teresa Guadalupe Reyes, which will be effective on August 31, confirms its initial position on it: The appointment was illegitimate, made without consulting the victims and without the official fulfilling the profile of experience, capacity and humanity that we need for the current crisis context.

Idheas strategic litigation in human rights stressed that the appointment of the commissioner occurs in a context in which the UN Committee against the UN disappearance analyzes the indications that it has received with respect to the fact that in the country this practice is carried out in a generalized or systematic way.

The groups and relatives stated that the output of the commissioner is late but necessary.

On Tuesday, Government indicated that the following week will publish the basis for the public consultation that will designate the head of the CNB.