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In Mexico, the broken promise of identifying the missing

2024-04-03T15:47:32.700Z

Highlights: In Mexico, the broken promise of identifying the missing. 40 of the 59 employees of the National Human Identification Center were dismissed. The building, donated in August 2022 by the governor of the state of Morelos, has never received a machine or analysis equipment. "It's disgusting. I have been looking for my son for fourteen years. Why do this to us? Why continue to burden families? », protests Lourdes Huerta, member of a collective of mothers of the disappeared.


DECRYPTION - A center supposed to compare the DNA of anonymous corpses with those of relatives of untraceable people has just been stripped of its employees.


Mexico

It was the promise of a big step forward: a center capable of comparing the DNA data of people with missing loved ones and the 52,000 unidentified bodies. It was the promise for thousands of families to finally mourn, to bury their son, their daughter, their brother, their missing parent. Anonymous people often brutally murdered by members of organized crime. In Mexico, the crisis of the missing is corrupting society, killing slowly without anyone worrying.

However, 40 of the 59 employees of the National Human Identification Center were dismissed. The building, donated in August 2022 by the governor of the state of Morelos (center), has never received a machine or analysis equipment. "

It's disgusting. I have been looking for my son for fourteen years. Why do this to us? Why continue to burden families?

», protests Lourdes Huerta, member of a collective of mothers of the disappeared in the state of Nuevo Leon (North). On August 11, 2010, his son Cristian was...

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Source: lefigaro

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