“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
From January 1st to December 27th, 1,160 people were reported missing or unaccounted for.
The federal government has not disclosed variations in Zacatecas’ historical registry
2023 will end as the year with the most missing and unaccounted for persons in the history of the state of Zacatecas.
From January 1 to December 27, 1,160 people were reported missing or missing, of which only 385 have been found, leaving 775 still to be located, according to data from the National Search Commission (CNB).
This surpasses the balance of 1,125 disappearances, non-localizations and localizations of 2021, which was considered the year with the highest incidence since the beginning of the registry in 1961. Of the 2021 cases, 654 people remain unaccounted for.
Of the 62 years covered by the CNB’s National Registry of Disappeared and Missing Persons (RNPDNO), the whereabouts of 3,766 people are still unknown; 2,184 are “disappeared” and 1,580 are “unaccounted for”.
It should be noted that the federal government has not disclosed variations in the historical registry of Zacatecas, derived from the new updated census. According to information presented this December 27 at the conference of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the 110,964 missing persons nationwide, 16,681 were located and 17,843 have been searched for but not found.
Data 2023
Of the cases reported since January 2023, a total of 508 correspond to missing persons who, according to the protocols are those “whose whereabouts are unknown to their relatives and it is presumed that their absence is related to the commission of a crime”.
Added to this are 267 “unaccounted for” persons from this year “whose location is unknown” with no elements to indicate that they were kidnapped or that they are related to the commission of some other crime.
According to the same data source, of the 385 persons located, 49 were found dead, representing 12.7%.
Of the 775 people who remain unaccounted for, 85.4% are men and 14.5% are women.
In addition, 91 missing and unaccounted for persons are minors, of which 60 are male and 31 are female.
The municipality with the most cases of people who have not been found this year is Fresnillo with 239 people, followed by Guadalupe with 84, Zacatecas with 57 and Jerez with 37.
This year, 25 people from other countries have been reported missing, of which 15 (60%) have not been found.
