Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is proposing a series of reforms aimed at reducing disappearances in Mexico.
The reforms include strengthening the federal commission in charge of searching for missing people, as well as getting rid of the 72-hour wait time that exists in some Mexican states before a missing-person investigation can begin.
“Our feelings are with the families of the disappeared,” Sheinbaum told reporters at her regular morning press conference on Monday.
Mexico has struggled with large numbers of disappearances during decades of cartel violence. More than 100,000 people are registered as missing in the country.
Just last week, the discovery of a possible mass killing site in the state of Jalisco by a group of citizens sparked outcry from human rights groups and resulted in protests across the country.
In Hermosillo, a citizen search group made up of mothers of the disappeared marched in the state capital on Sunday to demand the state and federal governments do more to investigate disappearances.
