In Mexico, researchers warn that 52,000 is the minimum number of unidentified dead people recognized by state agencies; they estimated “that there are many more.”
A woman looking for her son, part of a group pushing for forensic reform, is undaunted by the risks. "I believe that when someone you love disappears, your fears go away, too.”
The groups’ report documents the expansion of two “parallel and overlapping” crises: more missing people and more unidentified bodies. The report documents two figures: 91,318 people missing haven’t been found and more than 52,000 dead haven’t been identified, because of failures and delays in the Mexican forensic system.
Violence emerges as the catalyst: Since 2006, there have been 340,000 homicides in the country, the equivalent of saying the entire population of a city like Newark, New Jersey, had disappeared. Last year alone, the country had 27.8 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in the world.
The report says Baja California , Mexico City , the state of Mexico , Jalisco , Chihuahua , Tamaulipas and Nuevo León account for over 70 percent of the total unidentified bodies. There are about 4,000 mass graves, the researchers said. According to the report, only 4,111 experts are engaged in activities related to human identification, while they also perform other tasks, which explains the continual lag in the investigations. As of Aug. 31, 2020, authorities from 11 states admitted that 6,176 expert opinions remained pending.
In 2019, Mexico acknowledged the crisis at a public hearing, as well as the emergency facing its forensic infrastructure. On Monday, the government announced the creation of an Extraordinary Forensic Identification Mechanism, which families had been advocating for, said Karla Quintana, director of the National Search Commission.
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