Desperate to find their missing loved ones, heartbroken family members are forming into collectives to pressure the Mexican government to help them investigate, locate and excavate mass grave sites, maintained mostly by powerful drug cartels.
More than 79,000 people have disappeared in that country, the vast majority since 2006 when former president Felipe Calderón launched Mexico’s war on drugs. Tijuana, a sprawling metropolis of 2.1 million people, became a front line as cartels fought to secure lucrative trafficking routes into the United States. More recently, neighborhoods on the city’s outskirts have been drawn in as low-level drug dealers fight and die for the right to sell methamphetamine on local street corners.
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