Over 27,000 Have Disappeared in Mexico, and Nobody Is Looking for Them Kelly Arthur Garrett - El Daily Post
go to original January 25, 2016

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The staggering number of disappeared persons in Mexico - 27,600 is the figure most often given - is clearly an outrage. Worse, hardly anybody in authority is looking for them.

Almost six years ago, for example, a 36-year-old rancher named Alfredo Quezada disappeared in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, while picking up a dog that had been given as a present to his family. “I thought the authorities would take action,” said his mother, who reported the disappearance, “that that they would investigate, that they would start searching.”

But they didn’t. Nor were they eager to let the family members see the case file to help with their own search.

And for good reason it turned out. When family members finally saw the file, they realized that the Chihuahua State Prosecutor’s Office had done nothing beyond notifying neighboring states - no search for his truck, no review of security cameras along the route he was driving, no cell phone tracking.

Brenda Karina González disappeared from the same Chihuahua town in 2011 when armed men came for her at a relative’s home and took her away. Again, the family suspected that authorities were doing nothing, so they started their own fruitless investigation.

Their suspicions were confirmed much later when they were finally able to see the case file, which contained a shock. “What is in my daughter’s file is what I have handed in, nothing else,” Karina’s mother told Amnesty International.

These are anecdotes, of course, but new research has led Amnesty International to conclude that they’re typical of official action - or the lack of it.

Read the rest at El Daily Post

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