By Luis Manuel Arce IsaacMexico, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) If Mexico shows the infamous record of 80 murders a day as an average in 2018, according to statistics published on Tuesday, it is also among the first countries in the world with the largest number of missing people, totaling 40,000 cases.
This act of violence is very distressing for the relatives of the victims, who seldom are certain, with irrefutable evidence, that their missing beloved ones were murdered, and they always harbor hope that they will appear, although it is just an illusion.
That is the case, for example, of the 43 normalist students from Ayotzinapa who are still alive in the feelings and dreams of their parents and siblings. The most terrible thing for them is ignoring what happened, how they were kidnapped, why they were assassinated and how they were murdered amid fear and suffering.
The story that they were victims of the police that was fighting a group of drug traffickers, and that they were alive when they were put in their cars was just a hypothesis, because the investigations were inconclusive, dark, partial and instead of shedding light they raised more confusion.
It has been nearly five years since that fatal September 26, 2014, in Iguala, but on this occasion, the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to go to the heart of the matter, regardless of who are involved, so he set up a truth commission made up of several official institutions and relatives of the victims.
But Ayotzinapa is just part of a bigger problem. In his latest morning press conference, the president explained the scope of the program on the disappearance of people that is underway and that is headed by Alejandro Encina, the undersecretary of the Interior, who said that Mexico has become a clandestine grave.
'It is estimated that there are 40,000 missing people, more than 1,100 clandestine graves, about 26,000 unidentified bodies in forensic services, and that shows the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and the violation of human rights that we are facing,' Encina noted.
According to Lopez Obrador's philosophy, the chain of assassinations and abductions is closely linked to corruption and impunity, which at the same time are the results of a social regime marked by discrimination, accumulation of wealth, poverty, lack of opportunities and brutal social inequality.
In consequence, more important than searching for and capturing the criminal is to eliminate the causes that generate crime, but without stopping enforcing law on those responsible.
In order to achieve that goal, a national security plan and several broad prioritized programs and federal actions are underway to eradicate poverty, in addition to a specific plan to investigate disappearances that Encina summarized in 11 items that are being implemented with collaboration from the relatives of the victims.
Among those actions is reestablishing the National Search System, appointing a new head of the national commission, organizing 24 local commissions, executing the 24-million-dollar budget for this year, implementing the protocols agreed upon with international specialized organization and creating the National Forensic Identification Institute.
For that purpose, the government has proposed a real enforcement of the law in force to establish public policies and procedures to search for, locate and identify the victims and the victimizers.
As important as that are the application of justice and the definition of the crime to act in the framework of law and categorize full responsibility for crimes of forced disappearance.
Starting on Friday, with the election of the head of the National Commission, those measures will be implemented to start eradicating that brutal crime, which is considered the most distressing effect of corruption and violence in Mexico.
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That is the case, for example, of the 43 normalist students from Ayotzinapa who are still alive in the feelings and dreams of their parents and siblings. The most terrible thing for them is ignoring what happened, how they were kidnapped, why they were assassinated and how they were murdered amid fear and suffering.
The story that they were victims of the police that was fighting a group of drug traffickers, and that they were alive when they were put in their cars was just a hypothesis, because the investigations were inconclusive, dark, partial and instead of shedding light they raised more confusion.
It has been nearly five years since that fatal September 26, 2014, in Iguala, but on this occasion, the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to go to the heart of the matter, regardless of who are involved, so he set up a truth commission made up of several official institutions and relatives of the victims.
But Ayotzinapa is just part of a bigger problem. In his latest morning press conference, the president explained the scope of the program on the disappearance of people that is underway and that is headed by Alejandro Encina, the undersecretary of the Interior, who said that Mexico has become a clandestine grave.
'It is estimated that there are 40,000 missing people, more than 1,100 clandestine graves, about 26,000 unidentified bodies in forensic services, and that shows the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and the violation of human rights that we are facing,' Encina noted.
According to Lopez Obrador's philosophy, the chain of assassinations and abductions is closely linked to corruption and impunity, which at the same time are the results of a social regime marked by discrimination, accumulation of wealth, poverty, lack of opportunities and brutal social inequality.
In consequence, more important than searching for and capturing the criminal is to eliminate the causes that generate crime, but without stopping enforcing law on those responsible.
In order to achieve that goal, a national security plan and several broad prioritized programs and federal actions are underway to eradicate poverty, in addition to a specific plan to investigate disappearances that Encina summarized in 11 items that are being implemented with collaboration from the relatives of the victims.
Among those actions is reestablishing the National Search System, appointing a new head of the national commission, organizing 24 local commissions, executing the 24-million-dollar budget for this year, implementing the protocols agreed upon with international specialized organization and creating the National Forensic Identification Institute.
For that purpose, the government has proposed a real enforcement of the law in force to establish public policies and procedures to search for, locate and identify the victims and the victimizers.
As important as that are the application of justice and the definition of the crime to act in the framework of law and categorize full responsibility for crimes of forced disappearance.
Starting on Friday, with the election of the head of the National Commission, those measures will be implemented to start eradicating that brutal crime, which is considered the most distressing effect of corruption and violence in Mexico.
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