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In Mexico, families and activists urge more work to end disappearances

Luz Elena Ramos, mother of Daniel Armando Guzman Ramos who disappeared on April 6, 2012, places pictures of faces of the disappeared during a march held by relatives of missing people and activists to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico August 30, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Families of missing persons and human rights groups in Mexico called on Tuesday's International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearances for stronger measures to fight kidnappings, including bringing more perpetrators to justice.

Progress on one of Mexico's most notorious cases of forced kidnappings appeared to play out earlier this month as a former attorney general was arrested and charged in connection with the 2014 disappearance of 43 student teachers presumed dead. The government now considers the case a state crime.

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