Stats and Numbers
Mexico has more than approximately ____ officially registered missing people.
135,000
Families used this international sporting event to bring attention to Mexico’s missing people.
2026 FIFA World Cup
This Spanish term commonly describes the mothers and relatives who search for missing people.
Buscadoras
This article requires Mexico to investigate disappearances committed independently by cartels or other private groups.
Article 3
Although 40,308 records showed government activity, only this many people were physically located and confirmed.
5,269
Protesters wore jerseys with pictures of ______ printed on them.
The missing relatives
This percentage of women searchers studied by Amnesty International experienced violence or another harmful impact.
97%
This article defines enforced disappearance when state officials participate or provide authorization, support, or acquiescence.
Article 2
Approximately this many registry entries lacked basic information needed to conduct a search.
46,000
This was the name of Mexico’s large World Cup security operation.
Plan Kukulkán
This percentage of the women searchers reported receiving threats.
45%
This article requires prompt and impartial investigations and protection for relatives, witnesses, and investigators.
Article 12
Of 43,128 complete cases showing no database activity, fewer than this percentage were under criminal investigation.
10%
Mexico mobilized more than approximately this many personnel for World Cup security.
100,000
Only this percentage reported violence or requested government assistance.
17%
This article protects victims’ rights to truth, search, identification, return of remains, and reparation.
Article 24
Independent sources estimate that Mexico holds more than this many unidentified bodies.
70,000
When Mexico entered the World Cup bid in 2017, approximately this many people were already missing.
more than 30,000
What is the name of the group that searches with the mothers to keep them safe?
There is not one, and there should be
In this case, municipal police allegedly transferred 43 detained students to the Guerreros Unidos criminal organization.
Ayotzinapa case