The enmeshment of the Mexican Armed Forces in Mexico’s daily violence was also highlighted by the State Department, especially considering the growing number of military human rights abuse reports across the last several years
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO On average, 26 people vanish in Mexico each day, 68.17 percent of whom are never found, according to the human rights activist organization National Search Commission (CNB). The issue has, the CNB said, become a national crisis which has been “normalized and for which there is no prevention plan by the current administration.” Mexico, in the first
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With more than 24,500 people reported missing during the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, and a total of more than 94,000 missing persons with no explanation as to their whereabouts, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) sent a select team of researchers on an official
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Javier Barajas Piña, a member of the Commission for the Search for Disappeared Persons in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, was assassinated on Sunday, May 30, authorities reported the following day. No details of the shooting were released, nor were any suspects detained, according to Guanajuato police. “The commission members express our deep
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XINHUA At least 59 bodies were found in hidden graves in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, government authorities said Wednesday, Oct. 28. “The vast majority of the bodies, in which there is still some tissue or other sign, would appear to be young people, very young, possibly even teenagers,” Karla Quintana, the head of Mexico’s National Search Commission (CNB), told
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