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Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

Disappearances in Mexico involving state at ‘alarming’ rate, says report

People march in Mexico City to demand action on disappearances
Relatives of missing people march in Mexico City on 10 May. Since 2010, at least 27 people who were looking for lost family members have been killed. Photograph: Isaac Esquivel/EPA

State actors are involved in disappearances in Mexico at an “alarming” rate, according to a report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

The sweeping investigation, to which the Guardian was given exclusive access, presents a dire picture of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico, where more than 130,000 people have gone missing, mostly in the last 20 years since the government declared its war on drug cartels.

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