A United Nations committee against enforced disappearances denounced the "
ineffectiveness
" of the authorities in investigating some 95,000 people missing in Mexico, as well as the "
impunity
" enjoyed by the perpetrators of these kidnappings and murders often linked to trafficking. drug.
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"
We regret to note that there are still generalized disappearances over a large part of the territory of the State for which, as we reported in 2015, impunity predominates
", declared to the press the representative of the UN committee. Carmen Rosa Villa, Friday after a visit to Mexico of ten days.
More than a hundred people would have disappeared "
during our stay
", added the representative of the committee who arrived in Mexico City in mid-November.
A total of 95,121 people appear in the National Register of Missing and Unidentified Persons.
The UN committee criticized the "
ineffectiveness
" of the investigations as well as the "
arbitrariness
" of the decisions of the prosecution in cases of disappearance, in a country where the security forces and justice are suspected of being infiltrated by criminal networks drug trafficking in several of the 32 states.
Mexico must adopt "
a national policy of prevention to eradicate disappearances, a policy which involves all the authorities and which makes effective the victims' right to truth, justice and reparations
", declared the UN committee, which visited the Mexico for the first time.
The committee considered that this first visit marked an "
opening
" to international support from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in power since the end of 2018.
The number of disappearances exploded as much as the assassinations from 2006, when ex-president Felipe Calderon declared all-out war on narco-trafficking.
“
Organized crime remains one of the main causes of disappearances,
” notes Laura Atuesta of the Center for Investigation and Economic Expertise (Cide), in a major report on the missing in Mexico that AFP will publish on Monday.
Mass graves exist in the north of the country, according to the National Research Commission (CNB) which estimates for example that 500 kilos of human remains have been found since 2017 near Matamoros on the border with Texas.
In Guadalajara, the country's second city, a crossroads has been renamed the Missing Roundabout, with photos of missing young people.
Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco, the state most affected by enforced disappearances (more than 12,000).
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