Mexico's "Disappeared": 79,000+ people have "vanished" in Mexico's drug war since 2006, more than Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, and Chile during their "Dirty Wars"

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The search for the disappeared points to Mexico’s darkest secrets

WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM

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A new government effort has counted more than 79,000 missing, the great majority in the last 14 years. That’s more than Argentina, Chile and Central America at the height of the dirty wars.

 

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More than 79,000 people have disappeared in Mexico, most of them since 2006. It’s the worst crisis of the disappeared in Latin America since the Cold War, when military-backed governments kidnapped and secretly killed their leftist opponents — an estimated 45,000 in Guatemala, up to 30,000 in Argentina, as many as 3,400 in Chile. And Mexico’s numbers keep rising. Last year saw a record. Mexicans are uncovering two clandestine graves a day, on average.

 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Shit. I knew the cartels were brutal, but the sheer number is just devastating.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Shit. I knew the cartels were brutal, but the sheer number is just devastating.

 

It's not only the cartels - it's the military and police as well.

[Jason]

Worth it to keep a few Americans from getting high. 

[SuperSpreader]

I've wanted to move back to Mexico but I'm too afraid to do so. I haven't lived there since I was a kid over 34 years ago. 

[SuperSpreader]

I was just reading this earlier:

 

Murder in Mexico: journalists caught in the crosshairs | World news | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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The 2012 killing of Regina Martínez, who was investigating links between organised crime and politics, began a wave of violence in the most dangerous country to be a reporter