Mexico City, June 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over the last two years, Mexican law enforcement authorities have managed to locate less than one percent of all disappeared people in the country, according to a recent report by El Daily Post newspaper.
The Mexican-daily compared data from two different federal government bodies. According to figures from the Special Unit for the Search of Disappeared Persons, created by the Federal Attorney General's Office (PGR), Mexican law enforcement managed to locate 112 disappeared people over the last two years. Only 77 of them were found alive.
In the same time period, however, the National Register of Missing and Disappeared Persons (RNPED) documented 26,928 missing people (this number does not include 112 people found).
The numbers unfortunately suggest that if people go missing in Mexico, they are more than likely to stay missing.
The PGR data added that the 112 people were found predominantly within the country, in 19 different states, but three cases were also found abroad in Guatemala, Turkey and the United States. The data collected from RNPED also showed that Mexico's eastern border state of Tamaulipas had the highest number of disappeared persons in the last two years, with 5,379 reported cases.
