It is increasingly common for mothers to hold different demonstrations to protest the disappearance of their children, demanding that the authorities solve the cases and punish those responsible.
According to the organization Movement for Our Disappeared Persons in México, which was created in 2015, in the country there are more than 60 groups of relatives seeking to enforce the Law of Disappearance, which went into effect in January 2018, to find the whereabouts of their missing relatives.
According to this movement, the objective of the law is the creation of a national system for the search, investigation, and identification of disappeared persons at the federal and state levels.
According to an activities report of the National Human Rights Commission, “the disappearance of persons, including forced disappearance, constitutes a multi-offensive violation of human rights, since in addition to causing irreparable harm to the victims, it causes their families to suffer.”
The report notes that for family members, not knowing the whereabouts of their relatives creates fear and uncertainty in addition to financial loss, as well as loss of physical and mental health.
According to data from the National Search Commission, in the first four years of the six-year term of the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 9,284 missing and unlocated people have been recorded, 27.69% more than in 2018, the last year of the term of his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto.