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Thomas Graham in Mexico City

Is Mexico City’s plummeting murder rate too good to be true?

A woman hangs a portrait of a missing person on a makeshift line along Reforma Avenue during a march marking International Day of the Disappeared, in Mexico City, on 30 August 2023.
A woman hangs a portrait of a missing person on a makeshift line along Reforma Avenue during a march marking International Day of the Disappeared, in Mexico City, on 30 August 2023. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

“I’d like to ask you to close your eyes.”

“Imagine a woman, 32 years old, 165cm tall. Slim, with light brown skin and slender arms with soft black hair. An oval face and a button nose that turned up at the end. Intense, coffee-coloured eyes. Eyes that expressed joy, anger, calm and sadness.”

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