Key Points
Many of those missing are buried in clandestine graves all across the country...
The report, Searching between pain and hope: Findings of clandestine graves in Mexico 20202022, exposes with hemerographic data that in those two years, 1,134 clandestine graves were registered, with 2,314 bodies and 2,242 remains..
By April 2023, a journalistic investigation by Quinto Elemento Lab reported that the number of illegal burials reached 5,696 clandestine graves, and that more than half of them were detected during the current federal administration...
"They dispose of them in caustic soda or with chemicals, char them and incinerate them in the open air or in crematoria; they throw the remains away or bury them," the researcher says.. So, in 2021, Silvn's group did another experiment, this time in Hidalgo and with a spectroradiometer, which measures how different substances reflect light..
With information from the FUNDENL collective and support from the American Jewish World Service, CentroGeo created Huellas de vida, a platform that crosses the information of unfound persons and unidentified bodies with data from objects found in clandestine burial sites in Nuevo Len..
