Mexico: President Sheinbaum announced reforms to strengthen search for missing persons

Published at: 20/03/2025 02:30 PM

During a press conference, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported that she will present amendments to laws next Monday to, among other objectives, strengthen the search for missing persons and generate a single database.

The president ratified her commitment to these changes and explained that although she announced that she would present them this Thursday, the Legal Counsel and all areas have not yet been concluded, because it deals with a topic that requires further analysis, Prensa Latina explained.

He added that this reform lies in “strengthening the search and, on the other hand, strengthening sanctions and creating all the conditions so that there are unique databases in the country that allow us to serve.”

In addition, Sheinbaum added that when an unidentified person unfortunately dies, there is no single national database, and in the face of a disappearance alert in a state by a prosecutor's office, there is no obligation to disseminate it to the entire country.

“There is no such obligation in the law today. It is mentioned, but minimized, there is no obligation,” said the dignitary in the affirmative on “issues of this type are those that we want to be clear about who corresponds to the state, federal or municipal”.

Mazo News Team