Search for Disappeared Persons Loses Priority, Says Deputy Attorney General Daniela Rea - CNN Mexico
go to original September 1, 2013

Three months after the creation of the Specialized Unit to Search for Disappeared Persons, and as part of the International Day of Disappeared Persons, the Deputy Attorney General for Human Rights of the Attorney General’s office, Ricardo García Cervantes, believes that the course has not changed towards finding the location of the missing.

“I have personal judgment criteria that permit me to indicate that it has, unfortunately, fallen in priority,”  he said in an interview with CNN Mexico, and as an example he pointed out how the topic was not included in the recent Public Security National Conference.

The current government has made public an aggregate list of 26,000 disappeared persons, announced search agreements with the International Red Cross, made agreements with the Specialized Unit, and signed an agreement with civil organizations and the Argentinean Team of Forensic Anthropology, to identify the remains from San Fernando and Cadereyta.

Even so, the National Action Party (PAN) member from Coahuila, García Cervantes, who joined the cabinet last December, recognized that these actions are not sufficient and that the problem of disappearances has fallen in priority on the public agenda.

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