Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Mexico by protesting for violent disappearances and demanding more actions than officials to deal with them.

Relatives and friends of the missing, as well as human rights activists, demonstrated the streets of Mexico, Guadalahara, Cordoba and other cities on the streets of the city of Mexico, Guadalahara, Cordoba and other cities and called on the government of President Claudia Sinbaum.

More than 130,000 people have been declared missing in Mexico. Almost all the disappearances have occurred since 2007when then President Felipe Calderon started the “War against drugs”.

In many cases, those who have disappeared have been violently recruited in the drug cartels or murdered because they resisted.

While drug cartels and organized crime groups are the main perpetrators, security forces are also accused of deaths and disappearances.

From one end of the country to the other – from the southern states such as Oaxaca to the northern such as Sonora and Duran – thousands Holding placards with the faces of their relatives, They require the authorities to do more to address the issue.

In the city of Mexico, the march caused traffic immobilization in the capital as the protest took place on the main road.

Many families that a member of them have disappeared have formed research groups, known as “buscadores”, who are investigating the countryside and the northern Mexican deserts, following information, often by the cartels themselves, about the fate of the mass tombs.

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Mexico is experiencing a level of disappearances that exceeds some of the worst victims in Latin America.

About 40,000 disappeared in Guatemala’s 36 -year -old civil war, which ended in 1996. It is estimated that 30,000 disappeared in Argentina under military sovereignty between 1976 and 1983.