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Seven Women Disappear Daily in Mexico

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may have screamed foul when the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED) on Tuesday, April 12, declared that disappearances in Mexico are on the rise, thanks to organized crime groups, government complicity and “almost absolute impunity” for culprits, even going so far as to call the committee

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AMLO Calls UN Enforced Disappearance Committee Liars

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one day after the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) issued a report calling the surge in disappearances in Mexico “alarming” and noting that the impunity of the culprits is “almost absolute” thanks to corrupt public servants and spiraling organized crime, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday, April 13, called the committee

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UN Calls Impunity in Mexico’s Disappearances ‘Almost Complete’

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After concluding a 13-day investigation into Mexico’s appalling record of disappeared persons — which number more than 95,000 according to government figures — the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) said Friday, Nov. 26, that there is “almost absolute impunity” for those responsible. “As of Friday, more than 95,000 people have been officially

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Mexico Has 40,000 Unsolved Missing Persons Cases

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     At least 40,000 people in Mexico have vanished without a trace in the last 20 years, according to Undersecretary of the Interior (SeGob) for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez. “We estimate that there are currently about 40,000 disappeared persons in Mexico, more than 1,100 clandestine graves and 26,000 unidentified corpses in the nation’s morgues,”

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