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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico must act immediately to curb an alarming trend of increased enforced disappearances, egged on by “almost absolute impunity” and often involving public officials, a United Nations committee said Tuesday, April 12. A rise in organized crime and a plethora of corrupt state officials are helping to spur Mexico’s skyrocketing number of enforced disappearances
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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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