"Mothers in Mexico Demand Government Action in Search for Missing Children"

Mothers of the thousands of people who have disappeared in Mexico due to violence held protests on the International Day of the Disappeared, demanding that the government take more action to locate their loved ones. Most of the missing individuals are believed to have been abducted by drug cartels or kidnappers. The protesters also criticized the government's apparent effort to downplay the issue. Lack of funding and resources have left police and prosecutors unable to conduct thorough searches, leaving it to volunteer groups of mothers to search for their missing children. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has claimed that the number of missing has been exaggerated, launching a door-to-door effort to check if missing relatives have returned. Activists argue that the government's resources should be focused on finding the missing or their remains.