Mexican President Claims Fewer Citizens Missing
26th August 2023
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s call for a “new census” is causing much backlash over missing people in his country, The Washington Post reported.
López Obrador says the number of Mexico’s missing persons is much lower than the 100,000 listed last year. He has dispatched officials to check whether people initially reported as disappeared have returned to their families, The Post said.
Families and advocates of the disappeared persons, however, fear López Obrador is trying to lower the numbers artificially before an election year.
Karla Quintana, the head of the government commission responsible for the official count, abruptly resigned on Wednesday “in light of the current context.”