There are now over 100,000 people in Mexico’s national register of the "disappeared." The UN says organized crime is among the leading causes of missing people in the country.
Highlights
- Mexico’s official figure of missing people surpasses 100,000 for the first time.
- Families are calling on authorities to do more to find victims of violence linked to organized crime.
- The interior ministry compiles a national register of the “desaparecidos” — Spanish for missing people — which is periodically updated.
- The UN says organized crime is among the leading causes of disappearing people in Mexico.
- Last year, the country of more than 129 million people saw 94 murders a day on average, with 350,000 people dying in the war on drugs since the war began in 2006, with 94 people a day being murdered in Mexico’s capital alone.