Arturo Sanchez, Carolina Gomez, Nestor Jimenez, and Fernando Camacho
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 31, 2022, p. 4
Forced disappearances in Mexico are in a state of almost absolute impunity
according to the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ONU-DH).
In the third edition of the book Forced disappearance in Mexico: A look from the agencies of the United Nations systemthe instance points out that, in order to eradicate impunity for disappearances, whoever is responsible, the Mexican State You must fulfill your duty to search for the disappeared persons until their whereabouts, fate or fate are determined.
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Presenting the publication yesterday, Michelle Bachelet, UN-DH High Commissioner, urged the Mexican State in a video message to implement without delay the recommendations presented by different human rights organizations.
The report was also presented yesterday. Childhood counts in Mexico 2022: Childhood and disappearancesprepared by the Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico (Redim), together with international foundations.
The text details that every day in Mexico 14 children and adolescents disappear; that is, one every two hours, and although eight out of 10 are located, from the reports corresponding to last year, 1,896 are still not located
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Outputs they have not worked
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Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, pointed out that it must be recognized that the solutions that we have sought to solve the problem of impunity have not worked
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He indicated that an initial idea of the current government was to provide autonomy to the Public Ministry, so that it would not become an instrument of political action against dissidents, (but this) has led us to generate a set of prosecutors with a transexennial meta-power, which sometimes becomes a counterweight to the action of the local or federal Executive Power itself
. Most of the prosecutor’s offices in the country have assumed an autarchy that is not helping to solve the problem
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Norma Leticia Hidalgo, who is looking for her son Roy Rivera Hidalgo, who has been missing since January 11, 2011 in Nuevo León, stated that there are 105,022 missing persons in the country, according to official figures, in addition to the fact that there are more than 52,000 bodies. unidentified in the forensic services and more than 4,700 clandestine graves located.
For her part, Tania Ramírez, director of the Redim, added that when the 100,000 disappeared persons were reached last April, 16 percent of them were children and adolescents. Meanwhile, to date there are 17,208 who have not been located.
The document details that children and adolescents, as well as young adults aged 19 to 29, they are the ones who are being disappeared the most
. It indicates that there are three reasons why infants and adolescents disappear: One is abduction, another is forced recruitment, and the third is when they flee contexts of violence.
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Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Cuajimalpa Unit, yesterday organized a virtual forum in which groups of relatives of disappeared persons from various Latin American countries participated, who stressed that this phenomenon has occurred on a continental level with many features in common.
