translated from Spanish: Alert by thousands of children missing with Enrique Peña Nieto

Mexico.-a total of 4 thousand 980 children and teenagers disappeared during the six years of the former President, Enrique Peña Nieto, warned the network for children’s rights in Mexico (Redim). Minor non-localized 3 thousand 67 are women, said members of the 63 organizations that make up the Red.El State of Mexico and Puebla are entities that officially recorded the highest number of minors not located during the last six years.

Photo: Reform the municipality of Puebla has 389 cases of missing children, Tijuana added 249, Ciudad Juarez recorded 206, at least 182 Monterrey, Hermosillo 160, Toluca 155, Culiacan 132, Matamoros 131, 123 Ecatepec and Nezahualcoyotl 122.Juan Martín Pérez García, Executive Director of the Redim, considered that it will worsen the crisis of children non-localized. He criticized that the national search system not prioritize localization of minors and was reduced by 40 percent the budget for the plan. In addition, he said, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, not dialogues with social organizations that analyze this problem.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador data are emerging so far and unfortunately, above all, the number of missing girls, said Martín Pérez to submit annual Balance 2018 on the problems of children in Mexico.

He rebuked the new federal Government is not taking as obligation to the protection of minors and is leaving this responsibility in the hands of the families.” What is most troubling is that it begins to generate a red bulb that will bring more international criminal groups because there is a paradise of impunity in Mexico.” No longer that Mexican criminal groups are seeing children as a target for trafficking and other criminal purposes, but other international criminal mafias”, said the Director of the network.

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