IN MEXICO, ONE PERSON DISAPPEARS EVERY HOUR.

During the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which began in December 2018, and until this month of August 2023, 43,000 Mexicans have disappeared; that is, one per hour during the 4 years, 8 months of the current administration, which ends its mandate on September 30, 2024.

From 1962 to 2023, the number of missing persons, according to the Register of Missing and Unlocated Persons, reaches 111,000.
It is an enormous tragedy, as thousands of families, day after day, experience the loss of a loved one who does not make it to their work, school, shop, or home.

They are men, women, teenagers, children, etc. And the response of the López Obrador government has been disdain, because during its entire administration it has not once received the fathers and mothers who are looking for their children or their siblings, or their husbands or wives.

López Obrador is so annoyed with this issue that he has ordered the Ministry of Welfare, which is in charge of distributing the economic aid that his government gives to the population (cash), to conduct a new “census” of missing persons, when it is not this body that is in charge of doing so, but the Ministry of Interior.

And the goal of the new “census” is to reduce the number of missing persons, so that the president can say that his government has addressed the problem.

This maneuver is so crude that Karla Quintana, the head of the National Search Commission under the Ministry of the Interior, decided to resign in protest at this new “census” that seeks to wash the face of an irresponsible government that has failed to address such a serious problem that hurts Mexican society greatly.

But this has been the López Obrador administration, which prefers to pretend to solve problems, such as corruption, which is now worse than in previous governments; by masking up statistics or continually criticizing the media, political parties, academics or intellectuals who constantly expose the country's deplorable reality, and who therefore expose a government that promised to bring the country out of the abyss it was in; and instead, what it has done is to deepen the domination of organized crime and corrupt political and economic groups.