Ministry Reports 28,000 Missing Persons from Mexico's War on Drugs James Blears - Vatican Radio
go to original September 13, 2016

Nearly 28,000 people have gone missing during Mexico's ongoing nine-year drug war. The updated numbers were released by the Mexican Ministry of the Interior. Listen to James Blears' report:

The chilling statistic adds up to 27,887, and it comes from the newly created National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, covering all of Mexico's 32 States.

Drug cartel ravaged Tamaulipas, skirting Texas, accounts for 21 percent of the total. The true overall figure, however, is likely to be much higher.

Many traumatized families are terrorized and intimidated into silence by organized crime. Others have little or no confidence in either the police or Mexico's unwieldly justice system.

The largest group of the disappeared is aged 15 to 19, closely followed by the 20 to 24 year olds. Hundreds of clandestine burial sites are being uncovered nationwide, yet arrest rates remain pitifully low.

Mexico's Drug War death toll, exceeds 150,000 people, and counting.

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Related: UN Calls Mexico to Pass Legislation on Missing People (Prensa Latina)

Related: Experts: True Number of Mexico’s Homicide Victims May Never be Known (CNSNews.com)

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