Relatives of the disappeared demand justice. Photo Jair Cabrera
So far this year, 11,746 reports of missing persons have been registered in the country, of which 6,978 have been found and 4,768 remain missing, according to the National Registry of the National Search Commission (CNB). Of those located, 6,544 were found alive and 434 were found dead.
According to public statistics, of the 4,768 reports of those who remain missing, the majority are from Mexico City (541), Michoacán (379), Sinaloa (351), Nuevo León (341), Baja California (340), Sonora (289), Guanajuato (262), Chiapas (225), Jalisco (220), and Veracruz (206).
Regarding the sex and age of the victims, 74.16 percent are men, primarily between 15 and 35 years old; and 25.82 percent are women, ranging from ten to 20 years old. The gender of 0.02 percent of the cases is undetermined.
According to the national registry, of the 4,768 cases, 662 were reported in January; 738 in February; 879 in March; 838 in April; 951 in May; and 700 so far in June.
Among the missing persons, 29 are U.S. citizens, 11 Colombian, eight Venezuelan, seven Honduran, seven Guatemalan; and three each of Canadian, Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan citizenship. There is also one Moroccan, one Salvadoran, and one Belizean citizens. From December 31st, 1952, until yesterday, the national registry totaled 135,271 missing persons reports. These statistics are compiled, collected, and integrated by federal and state authorities.
One of the cases included in these numbers is that of Brian Adriel Caballero Rosales, who disappeared in September 2025 in the Infonavit Norte neighborhood of Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico.
His search has been led by his son, Alexander, just 23 years old. In an interview, he said that, as the eldest of his siblings, he had to drop out of school to work and go out into the streets to try to find any trace of his father.
“Sometimes the system abandons you, and you have no other option but to do it on your own,” he lamented. He explained that although there is an open investigation into the case, “there has been considerable negligence. I requested video recordings from the C4 security center, but they told me they were misplaced, my cameras were lost, and they didn’t get the call logs until four months later.”
Therefore, he asked the authorities to expedite the investigation, because living like this “is very sad; it’s a horrible and exhausting process.”
Original article by Jessica Xantomila, La Jornada, June 28th, 2026.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.