So far this year, almost 600 missing persons of foreign nationality have been reported in Mexico, of which 408 have not yet been located, where Nuevo León is the second state with the most cases, registering 39, according to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDNO)
The Milenio-Multimedios platform carried out a query in the federal registry, where between January 1 and September 30, 2024, 595 reports of missing persons of nationalities other than Mexican were initiated throughout the country, of which 408 are still missing; 76 are from Colombia; 68 from Venezuela; 57 from the United States; 51 from Honduras; 31 from Ecuador; 25 from Guatemala, and 17 from El Salvador, among other nationalities, such as Ghana and Italy.
The RNPDNO digital platform also indicated that Mexico City was the main entity for missing foreigners, with 64 people who have not been located, followed by Nuevo León, with 39; Chiapas, 37; Baja California, 32; Chihuahua, 27; Sonora, 26; State of Mexico, 22; Tamaulipas, 21; Zacatecas and Coahuila, both with 19.
Monterrey, municipality with the most missing foreigners
Nuevo León was ranked second nationally, and the majority of foreign missing persons were from Honduras, with 15 cases; the United States, six; Venezuela, five, and Colombia, three.
According to the platform, Monterrey was the municipality with the most reports of missing foreign persons in Nuevo León with 22, followed by Salinas Victoria, with four; El Carmen, General Zuazua, Cadereyta Jiménez and General Escobedo, all of them with two each.
Another key state due to its international borders with the United States is Tamaulipas, an entity that registered 21 disappearances in the study period; the majority occurred in Reynosa, 11; then there was Río Bravo, with five, and Nuevo Laredo, two.
They emphasize that the victims were originally from Colombia, with 10; Honduras, with three; the United States, with three, and Ecuador, also with three.
In Coahuila, of the 19 people still not located, 11 were reported in the municipality of Piedras Negras and five in Torreón, while in Saltillo, Acuña and an unspecified demarcation, one case each was reported.
In this entity in the Northeast region of the country, five people from Venezuela remain missing, four Hondurans, three Salvadorans, one Colombian, one Dominican and one Guatemalan.
Mexico City has the highest incidence
In Mexico City, the state with the highest incidence of those recorded by the RNPDNO, the municipalities where the majority of missing foreigners were last seen were Gustavo A. Madero, with 21 incidents; Cuauhtémoc, 11, and Venustiano Carranza, nine.
The main nationalities of the missing persons in the country’s capital were Venezuela, 19; Colombia, 11; Ecuador, eight, and the United States, eight.
Regarding what has happened in the State of Mexico, in the same nine-month period of data collection, 48 missing foreign persons were reported, of which 22 remain missing and were last seen in Ecatepec, four; Tlalnepantla, three; Naucalpan, two; Toluca, two; Tecámac, two; Valle de Chalco, two; and Atenco, Chalco, Metepec, Zumpango, Chimalhuacán, Nicolás Romero and Villa del Carbón, with one report each.
The nationalities of the victims were Venezuela with eight; Colombia, six; Honduras, three; United States, two; Ghana, Bolivia and Italy reported one for each nationality.
Source: telediario
