The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances said there is an “almost total, structural” lack of punishment in Mexico for the crime of abducting and disappearing people. An estimated 95,000 people remain missing in the country.
Carmen Rosa Villa Quintana wound up almost two weeks of fact-finding and interviews with victims’ families in Mexico on Friday.
In Mexico, new clandestine grave sites turn up almost every week, and victims’ relatives are often left to search on their own for their loved ones’ remains.
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