Their names are Héctor, Brenda Karina, Jorge Antonio, Dan Jeremeel … The list goes on and on.
Some were last seen being taken away by military or police, like the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. Others left their homes but never arrived where they were going. All disappeared, never to be seen again.
It’s nothing less than an epidemic, concludes Amnesty’s latest report. More than 30,000 people are now missing, at least half of them reported during the current government of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Families desperate to find their loved ones meet with indifference or hostility from officials whose ‘investigations’ are destined from the start to lead nowhere.