Their faces gaze from banners on street corners, in trendy neighborhoods and roughshod barrios. Their eyes watch from gas stations and toll booths. On Mexico City’s central Paseo de la Reforma, an entire roundabout has been taken over by family members begging for help to find their missing loved ones. In cities from Monterrey to Mérida, the missing loom large, a constant, ever-present reminder of a crisis that has overtaken the nation.
More than 100,000 people have disappeared in Mexico, a staggering human rights catastrophe. A combination of soaring cartel violence and government impunity has left tens of thousands of people unaccounted for, many of them dead and buried in unmarked graves, others kidnapped and forced to work for organized crime.
