More than 28,000 people have ‘disappeared’ in Mexico in the decade since the country began its war on drugs

‘According to human rights organizations, Mexico should create a national search system for the disappeared.
More than 28,000 people have disappeared in Mexico in the decade since the country began its war on drugs, according to a report published Friday by the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights.
Unlike the disappeared from Argentina´s Dirty War, and other campaigns of state repression in Latin America during the Cold War period, the reasons for the 28, 161 people in the Missing or Disappeared People National Registry are not necessarily tied to any Leftist activism. But just as state officials in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Honduras, Guatemala and elsewhere were slow to investigate the disappearances, so too have Mexican officials been reluctant to account for the missing.’
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