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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Stevenson

Mexico focuses on looking for people falsely listed as missing, ignores thousands of disappeared

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Mexico's government is pouring resources into detecting what it suggests are “fake” missing people — cases reported by political opponents to embarrass the government, or kidnapped people who return home but don't notify authorities.

Yet officials make no significant effort to find actual missing people, angering the families of Mexico’s estimated 113,000 “disappeared.”

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