More than 73,000 people are missing in Mexico, the government said on Monday, some 11,500 more than in a previous total and a grim statistic underscoring the rights abuses suffered since the country began a militarized push against drug cartels.
A quarter of the missing are female, and the tally includes more than 12,000 children as well, according to the published data. Most of the missing children are girls.
The disappeared suffer crimes from kidnapping to homicide, but authorities have said some likely are victims of human trafficking, from young men threatened . . .
