Not coincidental
More than 100,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since records started being kept in 1964 — but most victims were added to the list after 2006.
“Latin American Daily Briefing (May 20, 2022)“
For those with short term memory loss, 2006 was the start of “Plan Merida”, the US sponsored and financed “War on Drugs” meant to shore up the (probably illegitimately elected) Calderón Administration. Crime rates have been slowly dropping since 2018 under the present administration, although… obviously… still much too high.
So is the war on the drugs or on the people, or both?