Almost 22,000 people went missing in Mexico last year, an average of 60 people per day. The search for missing loved ones can also result in disappearance or death. 22 searchers have been murdered since 2010.
Communiqué to the Madres Buscadores across Mexico seeking their loved ones.
But we tell you here what we were going to tell you there: Don’t stop seeking. Those absent people are valuable because of the blood they inherited, which is your own. We do not know those whom you are missing, but we know you and the nobility of your struggle. Don’t give up, don’t sell out, don’t give in
Since 2018, Melel Xojobal has recorded 2,144 cases of disappearances in Chiapas as opposed to the 1,476 reported by the State. Of the total cases, 40% have not been located. In 2022 Chiapas was in fourth place for the disappearance of children and adolescents. In the context of International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearance, Junax Ko’tatik, the Committee of United Families of Chiapas, Searching for Our Disappeared Migrants, released the following statement.
May 10th marks Mother’s Day in Mexico. It is a date on which, year after year, thousands of mothers take to the streets to demand to know the whereabouts of their of their missing children in a country which has over a 100,000 disappeared people. This article from today’s Guardian examines this human tragedy.
The ongoing tragedy of disappearances in Mexico continues and does so in impunity. It is an omnipresent problem which also affects the state of Chiapas, where almost half of the disappeared are children or adolescents. From 2021 to 2022, 1,171 girls, boys and adolescents were reported disappeared in the state. Girls and adolescent women represent the most affected group and often end up in sexual slavery. It is a phenomenon that especially affects indigenous populations and is largely underreported or not reported at all.
