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GUERRERO (CNNMéxico) - The disappearance of 43 students of the Normal Rural Ayotzinapa is just the tip of the iceberg of drama that depicts this phenomenon in Guerrero.
The case, which triggered a social crisis in Mexico, has become a symbol of the issue amounting to hundreds of victims in this state in the south, as recognized by the authorities, but for which there are no clear records.
In the last 10 months, at least 400 people disappeared, according to figures from Governor Rogelio Ortega, who added that Guerrero have overcome the fear of note when a loved one is taken away by any authority or crime in this state with problems of violence due to the presence of organized crime groups that
poppy production dispute , heroin base.
The governor acknowledged that the case of the 43 arrested by municipal police normalistas Iguala and delivered them to the cartel Warriors States has been inspiring to address this phenomenon.
"After what Iguala, after Ayotzinapa, and steel ourselves and denounce what we want to know the whereabouts of our missing and Chilapa and Acapulco, and these are more than 400 at this time of year . Is terrible, "
Ortega said last July 23 at the Congress .
Meanwhile, the National Registry of Persons Missing Data Missing or which includes cases related to illicit as well as migration, abandonment of the home and even natural disasters, but does not break the sum information- 856 cases for the regular courts and the federal in Guerrero.
In addition, the official figures are not alone. The tragedy of Iguala also led to social and family organizations, community police and decided to bring to light the reality of violence and start the search for their missing.
Associations of relatives of disappeared say that from 2014 to date, more than 2,000 men and women whose whereabouts are unknown. Forensic Science Coordinator Citizen, Julia Alonso Carbajal, said that in the last 10 months in Iguala have registered 150 disappearances of people between 16 and 28 years old.
"All young people, shame indeed and most were dedicated to be taxi drivers and construction workers. Of missing women, all too young. People in Iguala is terror, is paralyzed, is something that really hurts to see, "he said in an interview.
For the Attorney General of the State those "unofficial" figures are never going to match records because not all cases are reported formally to the Public Ministry.
Criminal groups and drug planting
The cases in the municipalities of Iguala and Chilapa draw attention of the authorities, because they are outstanding land poppy production and there is a dispute of criminal groups to control the square.
The state attorney general, Miguel Angel Godinez said that the people of Iguala North and Chilapa-region-region of Central and Mountain Baja- enter the "drug business" necessity.
"There are important factors as poppy crops, by necessity involved in this lifestyle of crops (...) in the north we have the boundary of Michoacan, Morelos, there have a number of criminals who are committing crimes between the State of Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, "said the prosecutor CNNMéxico.
Iguala whose population exceeds 140,000 inhabitants, relatives of missing persons have at least 700 cases of people whose whereabouts is unknown, from 2008 to date.
Julia Alonso Carbajal, mother of one of the missing movement and coordinator of Forensic Science Citizen, said that the number of records were "promptly integrated". Only in the last 10 months recorded 150 cases, most remote communities of people of that municipality.
According to data collected by Alonso Carbajal, 30% of those missing were taxi drivers and construction workers and other laborers, while most women did not have a steady job.
"Now where are beginning to register more (disappearance) is at the end of 2008, and from there to date (...) all young people involved to Mason, the taxi or played at events, mostly of young people, women, all are young and almost none had a job because they are very young, "he explained.
In this municipality, community police have taken action search -from October, following the disappearance of the 43 normalistas- that have resulted in the exhumation of 150 bodies located in mass graves, to which they have applied for DNA testing compare with information from 200 families, without having yet a result.
In Chilapa, meanwhile, with more than 120,000 inhabitants, the committees of relatives of missing has recorded 130 cases from 2014 to date,
30 of which were reported in May .
Jose Navarro Diaz, who has a family member missing since November 2014, said that there are people of all ages here, including professionals.
Villagers attribute this crisis -as the nearly 100 homicides last year from the dispute between criminal bands reds and Ardillos.
Is the drug or the police?
Although the Attorney General's Office said the disappearances could be related to the presence of criminal gangs with the production and trafficking of drugs, committees of relatives of victims say that most cases have been documented point to municipal police and the Army.
The coordinator of the movement Citizen Forensic Science, Julia Carbajal, explained that 70% of the 700 cases registered in Iguala is drawn to municipal police and the military in six disappearances.
"In the data record the family say: 'it is that it took a patrol, it is a cop who arrested him." They were missing for effective in Iguala. In Guerrero, the young -da not have much to say to where sorrow: or leads organized crime or disappear military, police, ministry, "he said.
"If a police officer takes someone has to make it available (prosecutors) do not disappear. Families there you embody, there you say, that his family was taken by the police, went to look and told them that they know nothing, "he explained Carbajal.
The state attorney general, Miguel Angel Godinez, said that after reports of missing persons in Iguala and Chilapa recommendation was issued to the investigating police to not wait 48 or 72 hours before starting a search process, but the instruction is to start it to "immediately".
"At some point, you are not given the value it had, but we are currently taking such importance that we put in the shoes of the victims, for the families," he said.
The state official said that some cases are not reported to the prosecutor because relatives know "what he was" the victim, he admitted but others remain hidden by the mistrust on the part of the population towards the authorities.
However, the coordinator of Forensic Science Citizen movement, Julia Alonso, said many families who come face to report responses from ministerial agents like "went with her boyfriend" in the case of the missing women, or "to go around" if they report a man in that condition. In other cases, they are asked to be careful if they want to report.
"Other flat as you tell the family to be careful about things as they are, that something can happen to your family, then give up and do not go, or do not want them taking up the declaration," he said.
So far, the reported cases of disappearances, and none have been resolved by the authorities nor by the committees of relatives.
