The case of Monserrat and Rubén
Monserrat Uribe Palmeros was found in the Ajusco after the search for four years led by his mother. Jaqueline Palmeros, founder of the collective ‘A light on the road’, found some bone remains in November 2024 during one of the multiple search days and for January the Attorney General’s Office reported that they coincided with her daughter’s genetic profile.
The 21 -year -old disappeared in July 2020 after climbing a car in the Apatlaco neighborhood, Iztapalapa Mayor’s Office, to go to an alleged job interview. He was the mother of two little ones who were 2 and 4 years old at that time.
The body of Rubén Díaz Valencia, driver of the Uber application, was found on January 30, a week after being reported as disappeared by his family. It was last seen in the Pedregal neighborhood of San Nicolás in the mayor of Tlalpan and its remains were found in a place of the Picacho-Ajusco junction.
With just over seven months of 2025, Mexico City has already reached its historical record of missing persons and not located with 1,315 cases until August 6.
Government strategy
The head of government, Clara Brugada, said that “immediately” the resources of the capital government were made available to seek Ana Amelí, despite the fact that the young woman’s family has indicated that the local search commission joined the location days two days after her beginning.
“We are going to continue contributing all the necessary efforts in the search for Ana Amelí and, as I said, what was developed these days is an example of search that we will continue very importantly with several institutions in Mexico City that will continue to be trained to have personnel that at any time is required for the search,” said the president during a press conference on July 22.
Brugada presented in April the Strategy for the search and location of people 2025-2030 with 20 shares and the investment of 250 million pesos, Among which includes the installation of a comprehensive support and search center of persons, a building where the Capital Prosecutor’s Office, the Local Search Commission and the Ministry of Citizen Security (SSC) will work together.
The Creation of a record of unidentified and not claimed people from Mexico City and a temporary sheltering center to prevent dead or claimed people from going straight to the common grave without an effort to identify them.
Bertha Mayor Luján, head of the CDMX Prosecutor’s Office, reported that since July 13 the investigation folder was opened for the crime of disappearance.
“In parallel, investigation began for the crime of disappearance, which, among other things, involved the interviews of the last people who were in contact with her, context and its circle,” he said at a conference on July 29.
For his part, Luis Gómez Negrete, head of the Local Search Commission, has indicated that this is the largest search in territory made in Mexico City, as Paricopan 342 elements working to find the young student of the UNAM, In more than 400 linear kilometers reviewed in an area of 32 square kilometers.
“Arduous work has been done, the largest search that has been recorded in Mexico City has been done in open field.
Luis Gómez Negrete, head of the CDMX Search Commission.
“There is a humanitarian commitment to find the missing persons and that in that way we continue,” said Gómez Negrete in a shared video on the social networks of the search commission.
However, so far it has not been successful in the case of Ana Amelí.
