The National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons reports that 14 new disappearances were registered in Durango during the first month of the year, two of which occurred in the La Laguna region.
The platform indicates that six of these disappearances correspond to men and eight to women. The disappearances are distributed as follows: 10 in Durango, two in Gómez Palacio, one in Santiago Papasquiaro, and one in Guadalupe Victoria.
At the Youth Integration Center, 51 percent of the total population served as of the end of November 2025 was female.
Regarding reports of located persons, the registry indicates that there were 27, of which 11 were men and 16 were women.
The distribution by municipality was as follows: 21 in Durango, two in Tepehuanes, one in Peñón Blanco, one in Santiago Papasquiaro, one in Pueblo Nuevo, and one in Lerdo.
In contrast, Coahuila reported no new cases during the first month of the year. This is noteworthy because this situation had not occurred in at least the last two years, during which the state averaged one or two disappearances per week.
The National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons reports 591 new disappearances in the first month of the year.
Of these, 399 were men and 192 were women, representing 67.51 percent and 32.49 percent, respectively.
The states with the most disappearances are Sonora and Sinaloa, both with 45, Guanajuato and Puebla, each with 52, and Chiapas with 29.
Historically, there are 122,901 missing persons in Mexico (from 1952 to the present). Of that number, 95,419 are men, 27,080 are women, and the gender of 402 is undetermined.
It’s worth noting that the data in the national registry comes from information generated by prosecutors’ offices and search commissions throughout the country. However, search groups for the disappeared and activists have pointed out that the information is incomplete.
Source: milenio
