On a balmy day in early April, anthropologist Juan Carlos Tercero left his home in the city of Tepic, in western Mexico. Then he vanished.
In a country riddled with violence, where 25 people on average are reported missing every day, disappearances like this have become cruelly commonplace. But what makes Tercero’s disappearance particularly egregious is that he had devoted much of his life to trying to tackle this crisis.
