The abandonment of the missing

An article published over the weekend asked why the issue of missing persons is a secondary issue for so many journalists and media outlets in the country. I think there is a lot of truth in that. Yesterday and the day before yesterday, for example, practically no one paid attention to the report Names without bodies and bodies without names, produced by the organization Causa en Común. It will be argued that the figures presented and analyzed are repetitive. But 53,261 disappearances during López Obrador’s six-year term cannot be a news rehash, nor can the fact that the number of missing persons is increasing at 120,000, or that impunity is around 99%, or that in this labyrinth of terror only 15 people have been identified in the last two years, or that 54% of the missing are women and 76% minors, or that only 60 forensic centers can store corpses, or that in 100 days of the current government 4,120 human beings have disappeared, 41 per day, or that, as the document concludes, the National Search System “does not exist, since the commissions and prosecutors that comprise it suffer from a lack of resources and institutional support.” Yes, there is an abandonment of the missing, they are not important. It is unforgivable.