• EFFORT: Mexico’s judicial branch should convene a special group of judges along with a team of prosecutors that could launch a massive investigation into the tens of thousands of forced disappearances in the country, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
• NUMBERS: Following the release of the organization’s annual report, HRW’s executive director for the Americas, José Miguel Vivanco, said that the total number of federal and state-level sentences related to forced disappearance cases in Mexico was only 50.
• CULPRITS: “What is really incomprehensible is that the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is committed to identifying these cases, but seems not to be interested in solving a basic question: who are the authors of this Dantesque show?”, said Vivanco.
• VICTIMS: Earlier this month, the López Obrador Administration said that there were 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 authoritarian one-party era that ended in 2000.
