Thousands of March for 130,000 missing

Thousands of people protested across Mexico to emphasize many violent disappearances in the country and demand additional actions of officials to fight them.

Relatives and friends of the missing, as well as human rights defenders, passed through the streets of Mexico, Guadalajari, Cordob and other cities that called for justice and called on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s President to help find their missing loved ones.

More than 130,000 people in Mexico have been reported. Almost all disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then President Felip Calderon started his “war with drugs”.

In many cases, those who disappeared were forcibly recruited in the drug cartel, or killed for resistance.

While drug cartels and organized crimes groups are the main guilty, security forces are also accused of death and disappearance.

The widespread distribution of cities, states and municipalities, where demonstrations were conducted, illustrate the degree in which the problem of forced disappearances affects the community and families across Mexico.

From one end of the country to the other – from the southern states, such as the Axaca to the Northern, such as Sonora and Duranga – activists and family members of the disappeared people were in their thousands who were carrying posters with their relatives to demand more from the authorities to solve the issue.

In Mexico City, the march brought traffic in the capital to a standstill when the protest crossed the main highway.

Many affected families have formed search groups known as “Buscadors” who view the countryside and desert of Northern Mexico, after tips, often from the cartels themselves, where the location of the mass graves.

Buscadores searches and their activity at high risk. After the recent opening in Jalisz, the obvious Narco-Ranch with the help of a search group several Buscadores participants disappeared.

Later, the Prosecutor General’s Office concluded that there was no evidence of the crematorium on the spot.

The United Nations called it a “human tragedy of huge proportions”.

Mexico is experiencing the level of disappearances, which exceeds some of the worst fees for Latin America.

In the 36-year civil war, Guatemala disappeared about 40,000, ending in 1996. It is estimated that 30,000 disappeared in Argentina under his military power between 1976 and 1983.