Government Reports 394,645 Total Missing Persons Cases Since 1952; 132,000+ Still Unresolved

At her Friday mañanera, President Sheinbaum presented a national report on Mexico's missing persons crisis, disclosing that 394,645 total cases have been registered in official databases since 1952, with 262,111 located (96% of whom had no link to organized crime). More than 132,000 remain missing. The government announced a forensic database expansion and a national alert system linking over 500 institutions to improve search and identification capabilities. Human rights groups acknowledged the transparency of the report while noting that Mexico's crisis of enforced disappearances — driven by cartel activity, police complicity, and state negligence — remains one of the most severe in Latin America. The Mexican government has discovered over 4,800 clandestine graves since 2006.