translated from Spanish: In six years, more than 3 thousand children have disappeared in Mexico

during the Presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto disappeared at least 4,980 minors and adolescents, of which 3,067 were girls (61.6%), alerted by the children’s rights in Mexico (REDIM) network.
They found the body of child reported as missing in Chalco, State of Mexico organizations pointed out that for every four disappearances of minors (both girls and boys), three occurred during the last Administration (75.3%).
In the presentation of its annual balance, the REDIM explained that the phenomenon is related to various factors, mainly the crimes of trafficking in persons, or those related to violence and sexual exploitation, trafficking of children, as well as the violence exercised by armed groups and organized crime.
The State of Mexico and Puebla are entities with the greatest number of cases; both build up 40.5% of the disappearances of the country during the last six years.
On the most worrying municipalities, organizations listed in Puebla (389 cases); Tijuana (249); Ciudad Juárez (206); Monterrey (182); Hermosillo (160); Toluca (155); Culiacan (132); Matamoros (131); Ecatepec (123) and Nezahualcoyotl (122).
Three municipalities belong to the State of Mexico, with higher proportion women than men victims; in Ecatepec, for example, three of every four victims of child or adolescent disappearance were women.
“The data are emerging so far and unfortunately, above all, the value of missing girls”, said Juan Martín Pérez García, director of the network of the balance.
He also said that 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”.
The REDIM warned that in Mexico there are 6,614 missing children, 17.7% of the total number of disappearances in the country. It also noted that eight out of every 10 girls and missing youth were between 13 and 17 years old.
Alert by budget organizations also explained that the budget of expenditure of the Federation in recent years “has not been sufficient to enable the State to fulfil stated in the General Law of the rights of children and adolescents in 2014”, by What was invited to the new Government to take more seriously their commitments to children.
The budget for this year, Redim said that only to the branch of the national system for the Integral Development of the family (DIF), there was a reduction of 16% over the previous year.
“This budget impacts the resources of the Office of protection to children and adolescents, girls, which have one important role, inter alia, in the evaluation and determination of the best interests of children and adolescents, as well as in the design and monitoring to” plans of restoration of rights”, stressed.

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