• DISAPPEARANCES: The López Obrador Administration said Monday that there at least 61,733 people who remain ‘disappeared’ in Mexico including both victims of the record setting violence of the past 10 years but also victims of the one-party era that ended in 2000.
• HIGHER: The new estimate is significantly higher to the previous 40,000 estimated in 2018 by the previous Peña Nieto Administration. It also includes 5,184 unsolved disappearances under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who arrived in power on December 2018.
• HORRORS: “We must not forget this is the ‘data of horror’. It has many stories behind it. A lot of stories, many narratives filled with a lot of pain for both Mexican and migrants families”, said Karla Quintana, head of Mexico’s National Search Commission.
• METHODOLOGY: Despite being a first of its kind effort by collecting information on disappearances in all Mexican states, some civic groups like Data Civica criticized the government for not disclosing both the methodology and the microdata used to arrive to the overall count.
