According to news.un.org: A national database has listed all those who’ve been reported missing in the country since 1964, and the tally continues to climb, amid ongoing drug gang violence and a lack of effective investigations.
To date, only 35 of the disappearances recorded since then have led to the conviction of the perpetrators, a “staggering rate of impunity”, said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
According to Mexico’s database on disappeared individuals, about a quarter are women, and around a fifth were under 18 when they went missing.
The vast majority of cases where the date of disappearance is unknown – some 97 per cent – happened after December 2006, when Mexico transitioned to a militarized model of public security.
