Jessica Xanthomilla
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday April 24, 2022, p. 3
The scourge of the disappearance of people in Mexico is a problem that has been increasing since 2006, although like other crimes, such as femicide, only with the covid-19 pandemic there was a slight decrease. Until yesterday, 99,283 people were registered in this condition, of which 24.81 percent are women.
According to data from the National Search Commission (CNB), the states with the most cases are Jalisco, with 14,938; Tamaulipas, with 11 thousand 924; state of Mexico, 10 thousand 818; Nuevo León, 6 thousand 188; Veracruz, 5 thousand 607; Sinaloa, 5 thousand 436; Michoacan, 4 thousand 294; Sonora, 4 thousand 280; Guerrero, 3 thousand 765; Coahuila, 3,531, and Chihuahua, 3,467.
According to data collected by the Committee against Forced Disappearance (CDF), of the United Nations Organization, while in 2006 there were 253 missing persons, by 2012 there were 4 thousand 148, in 2018 there were 7 thousand 583, while in 2020 they were 8 thousand 613 and until November 15, 2021 – when he visited the country – 6 thousand 369 were reported.
In his report on the crisis of disappearances in Mexico, which he presented on April 12, he highlighted that although the majority of the victims continue to be men between 15 and 40 years of age, official figures show a notable increase in the disappearance of boys and girls over the age of 12, as well as of adolescents and women, a trend that worsened in the context of the pandemic
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He explained that these cases would correspond to disappearances linked to the abduction of boys and girls, within or outside the family, to disappearances as a means to hide sexual violence and femicide, to recruitment and reprisals.
Regarding the entities with the highest number of missing and unaccounted for children and adolescents, from December 2018 to November 14, 2021, they are the state of Mexico, with 752; Mexico City, 580; New Leon, 432; Jalisco, 302; Zacatecas, 286, and Tamaulipas with 207.
