Official Data Shows 99 Percent of Missing Persons in Mexico Stay Missing teleSUR
go to original June 23, 2015

Mexico protesters hold two large effigies covered with photos of missing students that read "Where is he?" during a march in Mexico City. (Reuters)

Over the last two years, Mexican law enforcement have managed to locate less than 1 percent of all disappeared people in the country, according to a recent report by El Daily Post.

The Mexican-daily came to the conclusion by comparing data from two different federal government bodies.

According to figures from the Special Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons, created by the Federal Attorney General's Office (PGR), Mexican law enforcement managed to locate 112 disappeared people over the last two years. Only 77 of them were found alive.

In the same time period, however, the National Register of Missing and Disappeared Persons (RNPED) documented 26,928 missing persons (this number does not include the found 112 people). The numbers unfortunately suggest that if people go missing in Mexico, they are more than likely to stay missing.

The PGR data added that the 112 people were found predominantly within the country, in 19 different states, but three cases were also found abroad in Guatemala, Turkey and the United States.

The data collected from RNPED also showed that Mexico's eastern border state of Tamaulipas had the highest number of disappeared persons in the last two years, with 5,379 reported cases.

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Mexico has long been criticized for its high level of violence, disappearances, police corruption and impunity. This has been compounded since 43 students were forcibly disappeared in the state of Guerrero last September, which has caused massive uproar across the country and international condemnation. Of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training school, one has been found dead and the rest remain missing.

Earlier this year, Mexico's National Public Security System reported equally startling figures, stating that 1,360 people were reported disappeared in the country in the first four months of 2014 alone – an average of 11 new disappearances a day.

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