Mexico Confirms Number of Disappeared at 37,485

Mexico officials confirmed Tuesday that there are 37,485 people disappeared in the country, 340 of which have been declared dead.

Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete while unveiling the new “National People Search System”, announced the number of missing persons in the country as the most updated one.

But he also mentioned that the data might be higher than official numbers. The total number of disappeared was obtained from the creation of a registry at the national level.

“The registry yielded paradoxical data, 37,485, and surely the number of missing persons is much greater; but we had to rely on . . .