Thirty soldiers of the Mexican navy were arrested as part of an investigation into the disappearance of several people in 2014 in Tamaulipas (north), announced the Mexican Navy.
These soldiers whose identity or rank has not been specified are the subject of an investigation for acts that occurred in 2014 in Nuevo Laredo, not far from the border with the United States, but the number of missing persons or the circumstances of this disappearance were not specified either.
This is the most important arrest of soldiers for facts of disappearance for several years in Mexico.
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The Mexican government had indicated that it was preparing to issue arrest warrants against soldiers for the disappearance in 2014 of 43 students in the state of Guerrero (south), but has never confirmed these arrests.
Tamaulipas, ravaged by drug trafficking, is one of the regions in Mexico with the highest number of disappearances, especially on the road to the United States.
Most of these disappearances are attributed to drug traffickers, but they are also the result of soldiers and especially municipal police officers or assigned to traffic control.
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Since the launch in 2006 of a military offensive against drug trafficking, and until December 2020, Mexico has officially registered some 80,517 people missing.
Some 300,000 people have been murdered since 2006, according to official figures which attribute most of these deaths to organized crime.
