At least 100,000 people are missing in Mexico
Many victims lie in unmarked graves in the desert
Nadia rosales’s bedroom is that of a typical 17-year-old. Above her bed in a modest house in Puebla, a city 120km (75 miles) south-east of Mexico’s capital, hangs a poster of The Beatles and a Minnie Mouse balloon. Several Barbies, some make-up and a teddy bear litter a dressing table. But Nadia has not slept there since she went missing on the way to school in 2017. Her mother Vicky has searched for her ever since, on street corners and among corpses in the state mortuary. “We have not moved or changed phone numbers in case she returns,” she says.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “100,000 missing Mexicans”
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