The Stop Kidnapping association reported this Monday that 521 people were kidnapped in March 2024 in Mexico, of which 262 – more than half – are migrants, amid the record flow of people in irregular mobility through the country bound for the United States. Joined.
“In the month of March 2024, the historic number of 521 kidnapping victims” involved in 84 cases was recorded, the organization said in a statement. Of the total, 262 people were migrants and disappeared, mainly in the southern state of Chiapas (101), in the western state of Oaxaca (85) and in Mexico City (30). Those registered in these entities and those that were notified in the central state of Hidalgo (14) are not “reported in official figures,” he added.
In fact, 84.4% of the total victims do not appear in official records, since “of the 521 kidnapping victims, the authorities counted 81,” the organization said. This increase in kidnapped people, compared to 125 in February, “is due to an uptick in migrant kidnappings and mass kidnappings,” the source added.
Stop Kidnapping blamed the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador for “great abandonment” of kidnapping victims, due to the number of people not counted in the official registry. Comparatively, the organization reported 6,353 kidnappings between December 2018 and March 2024, which represents 41.7% fewer cases than those recorded by the previous president, Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), and 13.8% more than Felipe Calderón (2006-2012).
The states that have registered the most cases during the current six-year term are Veracruz (east), with 1,027; the state of Mexico, with 982, and Mexico City, with 450.
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