"According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons of the Ministry of the Interior, 14,072 people were reported missing and unlocated during Sheinbaum's first year in office. This represents a 20% increase over the 10,924 reported the previous year and more than double the 7,802 registered in 2019, the first year of the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum's mentor."
"Mexico is one of the countries in the world that best knows how to count homicides, but this is not the case with the crime of disappearance, says academic Carlos Perez Ricart. The missing persons registries in Mexico are designed to search for people, regardless of whether there are duplicates or triplicates, but they are not designed to measure, so when they are compared with homicide registries, it's like comparing apples and oranges, he argues."
Mexico registered historic drops in homicides, femicides, and violent robberies in 2025, with authorities crediting a security strategy for the improvements. The government announced the fewest homicide victims in a decade and decreases of 15–20% in femicides and violent robberies. Civil society groups and coalitions of mothers searching for missing children emphasize a contrasting trend in disappearances. The National Registry recorded 14,072 missing and unlocated people during Sheinbaum's first year, a 20% increase from the prior year and more than double 2019 figures. Analysts warn that disappearance registries are structured for searches, not measurement, complicating comparisons with homicide data.
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