The government of Tamaulipas and the Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) have not fulfilled the promise they made to relatives of more than 11,000 disappeared people in the state, to identify the bodies in mass graves.
According to information from Elefante Blanco, in 2020 the federal government delivered 18 million pesos to the state administration to build the forensic pantheons in El Mante and San Fernando, however, although the buildings were completed, the local Ministry of Finance did not allocate resources for forensic work.
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The National Search Commission (CNB) deposited 15 million 705 thousand 533 pesos on July 2, 2020 within the federal item, in exchange for which the state government committed to contribute one million 800 thousand pesos more for the identification of people and two lands for the centers of protection of the bodies.
In the following 45 days, the Ministry of Public Works assigned the works, through direct invitations, to six construction companies in the country, according to a query made by Elefante Blanco in Compranet.
So far, the Attorney General’s Office of Tamaulipas has not explained to the families of disappeared persons the reason why the work is being detained.
The only thing he informed the media, through a note, is that there will be donations of land within the municipal pantheons of Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Güemez, Victoria, Tampico and Altamira, to create shelter centers that allow to order the databases of unidentified deceased people.
In addition to the hiring of 91 people in the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the field of missing persons, as part of the reinforcement in the areas of Public Prosecutor’s Office, investigative police, administrative assistants and specialist experts.
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