Mexico's search for people falsely listed as missing finds some alive, rampant poor record-keeping
The Mexican government announced Thursday that its controversial effort to look for people falsely listed as missing has turned up 16,681 individuals who had returned to their homes but not notified the authorities.
The nationwide effort was widely viewed as an attempt by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to pare down the country’s politically embarrassing total of 113,000 ‘disappeared’ people, a number that has skyrocketed under his administration.
Instead of looking for the clandestine graves and crematoriums that dot the country, the government sent about 5,000 police and other officials to
