Mexico Uses Faulty Stats to Claim One-Third of Cartel Victims as Safe

Mexico’s government continues to use faulty stats to push a false narrative that the cartel-controlled country is safe. In the most recent attempt to trick the public, Mexico’s government is claiming that one-third of the country’s more than 130,000 persons reported as missing are believed to be alive.

During one of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily news conferences, her team presented a report on missing persons, trying to downplay a figure of more than 130,000 missing people in recent years. That figure, confirmed by Mexico’s government, has become a black eye for Sheinbaum as the growing number of points to the government not doing enough to protect the public from criminal organizations.

Various groups of activists claim that the real figure of people who have been taken by cartel gunmen is much higher, but is being kept artificially low by Mexico’s government as an attempt to downplay the levels of