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    Last Year, A Retired Mexican Schoolteacher Vanished. His Family Still Seeks Answers

    Albino Quiroz Sandoval left home to go shopping last year and never returned. A man has been arrested, but most crimes in Mexico go unpunished. More than 37,000 people have gone missing since 2007.
    by James Fredrick Jun 24, 2018 5 minutes
    A sign at the front of Quiroz's home reads: "June 16, 2018, 15 months since the aggravated kidnapping of Professor Albino Quiroz Sandoval. The human rights of the victim and the family have been violated. There is no prompt and expeditious justice."

    On March 16, 2017, Albino Quiroz Sandoval popped out of the house around 5 p.m. for a little trip to the shop. The 71-year-old lives in Tepoztlán, a small colonial town with little crime, a weekend getaway from hectic Mexico City. Quiroz had been a public school teacher for 48 years. Everyone knows him.

    By 8 p.m., he wasn't home. His family grew worried. His son Juan Carlos Quiroz, who was a 90-minute drive away in Mexico City, got a frantic call from his sister.

    "We didn't know what to do," Juan Carlos recalls. "My sister and I thought it could be a kidnapping."

    It is a reasonable assumption. More than 37,000 people have disappeared in the country since 2007, according to a Mexican government . Independent monitors

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