In Mexico, Families Continue to Fight Red Tape to Find the Missing Agence France-Presse
go to original August 28, 2013

MEXICO CITY - When 12 young bar goers vanished in the heart of Mexico City three months ago, their relatives rushed to hospitals and police stations desperately searching for missing loved ones.

Frustrated with the investigation's slow progress, the families blocked streets in protest, won meetings with the city's attorney general and barged into his press conferences when they felt they were being neglected.

On Tuesday, a Mexican official said 12 of 13 bodies found in a mass grave outside the capital last week were identified as the kidnap victims, but the relatives asked independent Argentine forensic experts to confirm it.

The mass abduction has cast a spotlight on Mexico's struggle to solve thousands of disappearances and the efforts families have to undertake themselves in the face of all-too-often uncooperative officials or shoddy police work.

"Authorities make an effort to investigate in those cases where families make enough noise that the cost for authorities of negligence is too high to ignore," Nik Steinberg, a Human Rights Watch researcher who wrote a report on Mexico's disappeared, told AFP.

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