Mexico's Disappeared Persons Task Force in Operation Despite Criticism Tiana Carriedo - Justice in Mexico
go to original July 14, 2014

Interior Minister Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, and Lía Limón, among others, announced the creation of the Disappeared Persons Task Force in June 2013. (Roberto Galindo/Contralinea)

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduría General de la República, PGR) announced via a press release on July 6, 2014, the creation of a new training program for personnel of the Disappeared Persons Task Force (Unidad Especializada de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas, UEBPD). The two-week training program aims to give public servants that form part of the task force a better understanding of human rights and special skills to search for disappeared persons.

The training program will be directed by Eliana García Laguna, head of the PGR’s Office of Human Rights, Crime Prevention, and Community Services (Despacho de la Subprocuraduría de Derechos Humanos, Prevención del Delito y Servicios a la Comunidad), and will include the participation of various Mexican civil society organizations and legal and human rights experts from Mexico and abroad.

The Disappeared Persons Task Force was developed in May 2013 amidst a protest and nine-day hunger strike in front of the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico City by activists and family members of disappeared persons. The protesters’ demands of the government were simple: stop ignoring the crisis of disappeared persons in Mexico and investigate all reported cases.

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