Jessica Xanthomilla
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, October 9, 2022, p. 6
In 2023, the National Commission for the Search for Persons (CNB) will receive more than one thousand 97 million 234 thousand pesos, an increase of 47 percent compared to 2022, when it was assigned 744 million 327 thousand, according to the Expenditure Budget Project of the Federation (PPEF) for the next year.
The document details that 74 percent of the budget (811 million 421 thousand 430 pesos) will be for subsidies, particularly for local search commissions, and 18 percent (198 million 791 thousand) for operating expenses (which in 2022 was 12 percent). From here will come the resources – still to be defined – for the new National Center for Human Identification (CNIH), created last May, whose purpose is to reduce the forensic crisis, with 52,000 unidentified bodies in mass graves and in forensic services. The remaining 8 percent (87 million 22 thousand 475 pesos) would be used for personal services.
The resources that the CNB would receive in 2023, if the PPEF is approved in its terms, would be the highest since its creation in 2018, when it was assigned 6.6 million pesos. In 2019 it obtained 400 million 791 thousand 984; in 2020, 720 million 396 thousand 562, and the same amount in 2021.
Although in the previous two years the commission allocated 81 percent of its budget to subsidies, in 2023 it would reduce it to 74 percent, but the amount (811 million 421 thousand 430 pesos) would be the highest directed to this item, since in 2022, 603 million 781 thousand 613 will be allocated to it.
