Mexico's Disappeared Continues While Raising New Concerns Over Government Inaction Nina Lakhani - Al Jazeera
go to original September 30, 2013

Angelica Avila holds a picture of her son Gino who disappeared in June (Nina Lakhani/Al Jazeera)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's mountain of unsolved disappearances continues to rise despite President Enrique Pena Nieto's promise to tackle the problem which has devastated thousands of families since 2006.

The disappearance of four people within six days close to the US border recently exposed the cruel mix of state corruption and organized crime still blighting the lives ordinary folks on Mexico's mean streets.

"Mexico today has the worst crisis of disappearances in Latin America, arguably the world," Nik Steinberg, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera. "That there is still no single unified definition and many state authorities have no idea how to investigate disappearances shows the government has failed to take the problem seriously."

The recent cluster of disappearances in and around the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, bears the hallmarks of previous cases documented by local and international human rights organizations.

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