This Washington Post article touches on a issue that has come up in Peace Studies 211: the victims of violence in Mexico who have simply gone missing (25,000 in the past six years). Efforts promised by the outgoing President Calderon are left largely for the incoming administration of Enrique Pena Nieto to put into effect.
(WaPo) “The names on the list — many more than in previous, nongovernment estimates — are recorded in Microsoft Excel columns, along with the dates they disappeared, their ages, the clothes they were wearing, their jobs and a few brief, often chilling, details: “His wife went to buy medicine and disappeared,” reads one typical entry. “The son was addicted to drugs.”“Her daughter was forced into a car.” “The father was arrested by men wearing uniforms and never seen again.” The documents were provided by government bureaucrats frustrated by what they describe as a lack of official transparency and the failure of government agencies to investigate the cases.”
The link is here.