Mexico’s National Registry of Missing Persons announced this week that the number of people reported missing now exceeds 100,000. Most of them are young men. Before 2006, the number of missing was below 2000. But since the Mexican government’s war on drugs, the number of disappeared people has skyrocketed. Marco Werman speaks with human rights advocate Maria Luisa Aguilar Rodriguez of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center in Mexico.
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