From January 2007 to April 2023, Mexican authorities reported the discovery of 5,698 clandestine graves throughout the country.
It is a dizzying number, but just part of the figures that outline the violence that the country is experiencing: more than 110,000 missing people and 30,000 murders a year, in a bloodletting that seems to have no end.
In an investigation published on Monday, the nonprofit investigative reporting organization Quinto Elemento Lab shows the evolution of the data, which are part of the records that the National Search Commission, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, has accumulated over the years.
The records show that the Mexican states with the most graves on their territory are Veracruz, Tamaulipas, and Guerrero. In fact, between the three of them, they account for more than half of the finds in the entire country. Veracruz leads the list with 668 clandestine burials.
Mexico found 2,835 unmarked graves from January 2007 to December 2018, a range that includes the administrations of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018). In the four and a half years of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term in office, the figure is 2,863.
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