Mexico recorded 7,399 missing persons cases in the first half of 2025, marking a nearly 18% increase from the same period ...

MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexican officials on Thursday called the 2014 disappearance of 43 students a state crime that was covered up by the government, in another damning assessment of the ...

MEXICO CITY — The disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 was a “crime of the state” involving every layer of government, an official inquiry reported on Thursday, in the most profound ...

Three members of Mexico’s army have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, the government announced Thursday.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances said Friday there is an "almost total, structural" lack of punishment in Mexico for the crime of abducting and ...

As highlighted by FIDH, IDHEAS, and EMAF in their technical note dated 26 March 2025, the disappearances of women and girls in Mexico are not isolated incidents. They extend across the entire country, ...

Cases of enforced disappearance in Mexico began to soar – along with homicides – in 2006, the year that then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched the so-called “war on drugs” with ...

More than 5,600 mass graves have been found in Mexico since 2007, and there are more than 72,000 unidentified bodies in the country’s morgues, while 127,000 people are reported missing. Yet the ...

In the first half of 2021 Mexico had an average rain shortfall of 20 percent, and by 2022 several states experienced shortfalls greater than 90 percent compared to expected levels.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities arrested the country’s former attorney general on Friday and accused him of torture and forced disappearance in the mass kidnapping of 43 students in 2014, as ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican activists filed a criminal complaint Wednesday at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, arguing authorities cooperated with or allowed drug cartels … ...