Breathe
By Sonia Serrano
In recent years Jalisco has remained the state where most people disappear. However, the strategy of the authorities, far from being based on a diagnosis of what is happening, particularly with the disappearance of young people, has focused on the management of numbers. As if the most important thing, beyond the people, were precisely the numbers.
When the state's leadership in the disappearance of people began to become evident, especially when the figure of 16,000 was reached in March 2022, the government of Jalisco decided to act on the numbers, instead of strengthening the searches.
Thus, the information was "updated" and dozens of cases were erased with the stroke of a pen, leaving the figure at over 14,000. Even so, Jalisco remained in first place nationally.
In addition, the administration headed by Enrique Alaro Ramírez decided to keep its own registry and opened the Information System on Victims of Disappearance (Sisovid), where the government of Jalisco has full control of the data.
According to the latest update of the National Registry of Missing and Unaccounted for Persons, as of August 28, there are 14,889 missing persons in the state, while Sisovid, as of July 31, reports 14,78.
The state government issued a press release in May of this year to deny that it "erases" missing persons, in which it assured that these are adjustments in the classification criteria. In addition, in the authorities' discourse it is stated that when a person is located they are removed from the registry, and that there has been a process to eliminate duplicate cases.
The truth is that the platform still does not allow, with the data provided, to confirm that the authority is telling the truth and that all cases are accounted for.
But in addition to the handling of the data, what has caused most annoyance among the collectives of relatives of missing persons is the inaction of the authorities in the search for persons, except in those cases in which the media coverage can affect their image. In those cases they do act.
Even in the most recent effort of the authority, in which meetings were scheduled with the collectives, headed by the Secretary of Planning and Citizen Participation, Margarita Sierra, no real rapprochement was allowed, much less agreements were reached.
In addition, the state government has not made a diagnosis of what is happening in the state, so there are no prevention actions either. The data analysis that allows conclusions such as a trend in the disappearance of young people, come from academic works such as the University Committee of Analysis on Issues of Public Interest on the Disappearance of Persons of the University of Guadalajara, or the review and recounting of data from the former rector of the UdeG, Victor Manuel Gonzalez Romero.
Thus Jalisco, a national leader in disappearances, lacks a diagnosis, accurate data and search strategies.
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