President Sheinbaum, Morena’s legislators, the high controls of the party and the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) did not take long to respond by discrediting Frouville and claiming that forced disappearances are not committed in Mexico, since the State does not participate in these crimes. Luisa María Mayor National leader of Morena, said that: “There is no doubt that this signal against Mexico has political and ideological orientation. They do not like progressive governments and close to people,” and added: “It is not the first time that groups within this body act in a faccious way without any objective element.”
Even more serious, the CNDH issued a statement denying the crisis of disappearances of Mexico and the president of the institution, Rosario Piedra Ibarra he declared: “The UN is not going to do anything here, we will not allow it. Those who say defenders of world democracy want to come to trample the democracy that is in the treasury in this country.”
With this, Piedra fell into a double contradiction, since his mother Rosario Ibarra, a banner in the struggle for human rights at the end of the 20th century, advocated the collaboration of international instances to solve the crisis of disappearances in Mexico. Secondly, the CNDH president herself had declared in 2020: “I think it would be very important for this committee to come again, because it was already when the investigation of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa and they brought a very serious and deep investigation.”
Before the cruelty and cynicism of the authorities, Victims groups They reacted with dignity and courage, making a powerful protest in the Senate, where they placed images with the faces of their disappeared and a sign as a closing seal: “closed for their lack of commitment to relatives of missing persons. We are missing more than 127,000”. With a diligence never seen before, Senate workers quickly removed the images and cleaned every trace of the protest, adding another link to the chain of lies and grievances against the victims.
According to international instruments in the matter, the disappearance and forced disappearance of people are two different crimes. While the first is committed by individuals without state participation, the second is perpetrated by state agents or has some degree of collaboration of government authorities. That is, so that the disappearance of a person is considered forced must have involved the State in degree of participation or omission.
Some forms of omission of the State are the refusal to investigate cases of disappearance in a diligent way, the mismanagement of evidence that could help determine the identity or whereabouts of a missing person, the lack of will to help the relatives of the victims to find their loved ones and the lack of actions of the State to prevent and sanction the crime of disappearance of people.
Consequently, if necessary, it is evident that in Mexico there are disappearances forced by the omission of the State. In addition, the authorities revictimize the relatives of the missing persons by ignoring them or arguing that those who were disappeared “in something were involved.” As if that were not enough, the State does not guarantee the safety of the search engine, who constantly suffer threats and attacks of organized crime.
In our country, forced disappearances are also committed by direct involvement of the State. To give an example – many who could stand out – according to Raymundo Ramos Vázquez President of the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee, only in 2018 were 54 cases of forced disappearance in Marina’s Security operations in Tamaulipas, before which the AMLO Government promised to take actions, but ended up covering up the military involved, just like Sheinbaum has done so.
