Mexic oh-oh
I haven't had enough time to write about Mexico lately. It's because, issues are so complex, especially just before an election year that is yet to come.
Just a few data by the CNDH since January 2007 to September 2016 on clandestine pits:
Additionally, 4 other states [Coahuila (13,825), Colima (37), Nuevo León (222) and Veracruz (21,874)] have exhumed/found 35,958 bone fragments or human remains.
Now disappearances, that's another issue all along. First, because information seems unclear or faulty between the Human Rights Commission and the Federal Justice Commission. Numbers don't seem to clarify whether disappearances are product of impune actions or just missing.
So the Human Rights Commission has the following numbers:
Since 1995 to August 2015 there is a reported missing number of 57,861 cases.
According to 25 instances of justice solicitors reported 24,928 victims.
Now, to clear this confusion, the former Human Rights Commission above, has been conducting a parallel and independent (not yet concluded) investigation that has so far, reported a total of 32,236 documented cases of disappearances. For Amnesty International is safe to say, more than 26,000 people in Mexico are missing or disappeared.
Let's think about it for a moment. Thirty thousand cases in 20 years could mean a (generalized and inaccurate) fluctuating pattern of 1500 people missing per year. Although this math is not correct, divided into 32 states, it could also mean a fluctuating number of 46.8 people disappearing in any Mexican state per year. Although this number means nothing in proportion to any of our state's population (just in Mexico City, a population in 2010 of 8.851 million has zero impact or Coahuila, an estimated population of 2,748,391 inhabitants in that same year), I tried to imagine 46 people missing in our communities each year.
I tried putting a face on 46 close or relatively close people that were suddenly whisked away by impune actions. Leaving behind no legal trace. Then I thought about the 43 Ayotzinapa missing students, and the Cageian silence around their disappearance.
Finally, after all this math I felt defeated, because no matter how hard I try, my mind doesn't seem to grasp one disappearance is enough to get alarmed by. Forty seven, five, or thirty two thousand and two hundred and thirty six people doesn't make a difference to my brain. All I feel is a sense of numbness around a wicked problem, white noise mixed with impunity and the frustration that goes along with it.
Now, I'm willing to bet, as of Tuesday, April 18, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates, all of Mexico's population, that means 129,892,537 of us, minus Peña Nieto and his 19 members of the "Governors Club" feel the same way?
Just a few data by the CNDH since January 2007 to September 2016 on clandestine pits:
855 found so far
1,584 exhumed bodies [from which 796 were positively identified]
Additionally, 4 other states [Coahuila (13,825), Colima (37), Nuevo León (222) and Veracruz (21,874)] have exhumed/found 35,958 bone fragments or human remains.
Now disappearances, that's another issue all along. First, because information seems unclear or faulty between the Human Rights Commission and the Federal Justice Commission. Numbers don't seem to clarify whether disappearances are product of impune actions or just missing.
So the Human Rights Commission has the following numbers:
Since 1995 to August 2015 there is a reported missing number of 57,861 cases.
According to 25 instances of justice solicitors reported 24,928 victims.
Now, to clear this confusion, the former Human Rights Commission above, has been conducting a parallel and independent (not yet concluded) investigation that has so far, reported a total of 32,236 documented cases of disappearances. For Amnesty International is safe to say, more than 26,000 people in Mexico are missing or disappeared.
Let's think about it for a moment. Thirty thousand cases in 20 years could mean a (generalized and inaccurate) fluctuating pattern of 1500 people missing per year. Although this math is not correct, divided into 32 states, it could also mean a fluctuating number of 46.8 people disappearing in any Mexican state per year. Although this number means nothing in proportion to any of our state's population (just in Mexico City, a population in 2010 of 8.851 million has zero impact or Coahuila, an estimated population of 2,748,391 inhabitants in that same year), I tried to imagine 46 people missing in our communities each year.
I tried putting a face on 46 close or relatively close people that were suddenly whisked away by impune actions. Leaving behind no legal trace. Then I thought about the 43 Ayotzinapa missing students, and the Cageian silence around their disappearance.
Finally, after all this math I felt defeated, because no matter how hard I try, my mind doesn't seem to grasp one disappearance is enough to get alarmed by. Forty seven, five, or thirty two thousand and two hundred and thirty six people doesn't make a difference to my brain. All I feel is a sense of numbness around a wicked problem, white noise mixed with impunity and the frustration that goes along with it.
Now, I'm willing to bet, as of Tuesday, April 18, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates, all of Mexico's population, that means 129,892,537 of us, minus Peña Nieto and his 19 members of the "Governors Club" feel the same way?
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