Prosecutors in western Mexico confirmed this week the discovery of hundreds of clothing items and bone fragments by a group of people searching for relatives at a previously known cartel training site, exposing major shortcomings in the original investigation.
But the discovery in the state of Jalisco was hardly the first such gruesome discovery. Mexico’s official registry counts more than 120,000 disappeared people. The discovery of such places has accelerated in the past 15 years as more relatives of the missing do the work the government often won’t to search for their missing loved ones.
