Clara Brugada’s government grants only 900 thousand pesos more for searches in Mexico City
Activists and families consider that the budget granted to the local Commission this 2025 is insufficient since 20 tracking activities have stopped.
The Mexico City Search Commission received an increase of just four percent this year, even though last November, activists and families pointed out that more than 20 searches for people are pending.
In the 2025 Economic Package, which the capital Congress approved last week, local authorities designated 23.7 million pesos to the agency, while in 2024 it received 22.8 million, which translates into an increase of 900 thousand 889 pesos to follow up on these cases.
Jaqueline Palmeros, mother of Jael Monserrat Uribe, who disappeared on July 24, 2020, in the Iztapalapa municipality, considered the resources insufficient because the Commission lacks tools and personnel to properly carry out the searches, in addition to the fact that the workers suffer from poor working conditions.
Palmeros, who is the founder of the “Una Luz en el Camino” collective, stressed that they will send a letter to the Ministry of the Interior to demand good working conditions for the workers since without them, it is not possible to carry out the searches or follow up on them.
The districts of Mexico City with the highest number of missing persons are Iztapalapa, Gustavo A. Madero, Cuauhtémoc, Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, and Venustiano Carranza.
Source: OEM
