The collectives insist that the armed forces return to the barracks

According to government data from Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorfrom 1964 to today 100 thousand people had disappeared in Mexico, almost a quarter of them are women and 20% were under 18 at the time of the incident.

For this reason, the members of the collective “Until I Find You” & “Safety Without War” they made theEvening for Peacein which it consisted of placing a mega banner, for the fourth time, 100 meters next to the photographs of missing persons, outside national palace and some Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), in order to send a clear message against the militarization in which the country finds itself with the Morenista governmentsince they had promised the opposite when they were in power and today this strategy has been reinforced.

In fact, they demanded that the two powers listen to the victims of the war against drug trafficking and organized crimea strategy that began under the government of Felipe Calderonwhere official figures were more than 5,000 missing or “absent”while in the government of Enrique Pena Nieto they had 35 million recorded and the 31 million that this morenista administration had until last year and at the pace they are going and for the time they lack, could exceed the figures of their predecessors and leave it at historic highs.

Marcela Villalobosmember of the collective security without warpointed out that the war on drugs This is absurd and it has only increased violence, enforced disappearances, murders, added to the degree of impunity in the country.

“It did not bring any benefit to the country, that (Felipe) Calderón decided to start this war against drug traffickers, the only thing we saw was more violence, more disappearances, more murders ; We have just seen that the soldiers in the streets kill people, commit serious human rights violations with impunity and we hardly saw it with the murder of five young people in New Laredothat these are not isolated events, that this type of behavior has occurred on multiple occasions, when we were promised a strategy of hugs, not bullets.

The activist also pointed out that there is a requirement for the Supreme Courtbecause they have several cases enlisted for the month of march, where there are several actions and protections of unconstitutionality that speak of problems of militarization, in particular the passage of the National Guard wing Secretary of National Defense, (Sedena).

From 1965 to 1990, during the so-called “dirty war”, the disappearances were mainly motivated by political considerations. Instead, after 2006, they were carried out in the context of the “war against drug trafficking and organized crime”.

In November 2021, missing persons registered in the register reached 95 million, even if UN representativesthey had warned that disappearances often go unreported, with which the total number of people whose fate is unknown could be higher.

For her part, the director of the “Hasta encontrarte” collective, viviana mendozasaid they came on behalf of the voices that have been silenced, “these photographs of the thousands of people we miss in the state of Guanajuatoabove all of military impunity, we come today through the voice of Angela young man murdered by the National Guard and that he remained in total impunity”.

Finally, he urged the SCJN to open public consultation on the use of the LARP in the streets, “that they get to the bottom of this whole affair which protects the constitution with the most international human rights standards”.