{"id":7883,"date":"2022-08-30T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2022-08-31T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:56:46","slug":"mexicans-march-to-demand-search-for-100000-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=7883","title":{"rendered":"Mexicans March to Demand Search for 100,000 Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/1f29a8c7041a42e59d211a4329321302\/800.jpeg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person places a photo of a missing loved one on an improvised altar at La Palma roundabout on The International Day of the Disappeared during an march along the Paseo de la Reforma street by families who want the government help locate their missing relatives in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The roundabout, where a palm tree used to stand but was removed, has been adopted by the families of missing people and coined &#8220;The roundabout of the disappeared.&#8221; (AP Photo\/Eduardo Verdugo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">Relatives of some of Mexico\u2019s over 100,000 missing people marched through downtown Mexico City Tuesday to demand authorities find their sons, daughters, parents and siblings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">The protesters carried photos of the disappeared hanging from their necks, and chanted \u201cWhere are they? Our Children, Where are they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">Many claimed that, rather than investigating the abductions, authorities are quick to assume that disappeared people might have been involved in illicit activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">\u201dFrequently, there are no investigations, re-victimizations. We continually face negligence and inaction,\u201d said Miriam Jaqueline Palmeros, whose daughter Jael Monserrat Uribe disappeared two years ago and has never been seen since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">To mark the International Day of the Disappeared, family members mounted a panorama of photos of the missing, and performed prayers, rituals and songs for them. Most of the disappearances began after the start of Mexico\u2019s drug war in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>While abductions and disappearances sometimes involve street-level drug dealers picked up by rival gangs, the disappeared also include kidnap victims, passing motorists caught at drug cartel checkpoints and witnesses to crimes or passersby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">Guillermo Fern\u00e1ndez Maldonado, the Mexico representative for the U.N. Office on Human Rights, noted \u201cthese are really enormous numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">\u201cThese are not like some situations that are in the past,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez Maldonado said. \u201cThese are serious situations that continue to happen every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">The protesters demanded that authorities start searching earlier, within the first few hours after a disappearance, rather than waiting \u2014 as they often do \u2014 to see if a missing person shows up on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of some of Mexico\u2019s over 100,000 missing people marched through downtown Mexico City Tuesday to demand authorities find their sons, daughters, parents and siblings. The protesters carried photos of the disappeared hanging from their necks, and chanted \u201cWhere are they? Our Children, Where are they?\u201d Many claimed that, rather than investigating the abductions, authorities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":7886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/1f29a8c7041a42e59d211a4329321302\/800.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Mexicans March to Demand Search for 100,000 Disappeared","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}