Although the current administration has shown a willingness to acknowledge the problem, since the previous administration, in which there were no meetings with the mothers or collectives, the official narrative has been responsible for minimizing the tragedy.

Recently, much of the discussion about the disappearances of people in Mexico has revolved around the activation—by the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances—of...

In Mexico, thousands of families search unsuccessfully for their missing relatives among the more than 90,000 cases that have accumulated since 2006.

The maximum exponent of human evil was the Nazi terror that kept a meticulous record of its victims. Thirty years later, under the doctrine of national security, a new systematic effort, but without light or stenographers, brought the figure of forced disappearance to institutionalized repression in Latin America.

On December 18, when International Migrants Day was commemorated, a fishing boat carrying more than 30 Venezuelans without papers to Trinidad and Tobago went down. This is the last episode of a long tragedy that has been taking place in recent years.