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News & Current Events Mar 27, 2026 at 6:51 PM

Mexico says 40,000 of country's 130,000 disappeared people may be alive

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Creativator Mar 27, 2026 +52
I remember a story from a decade or two ago about how the population of Mexico City was wildly exaggerated because local governments could benefit from cheating on the census. This headline is the most Mexican headline of the year.
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Sea-Cheesecake301 Mar 27, 2026 +45
Mexico's government has been infested by the cartel and cannot be trusted.
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 +33
Remember when the current Mexican president was running for election and over 20+ of her political rivals were murdered ?  Surely a coincidence 
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Sea-Cheesecake301 Mar 27, 2026 +23
Mexico would be a paradise without the cartel and all these idiots that refuse to accept how bad the situation is. Most of these pendejos trying to deflect by saying "america is bad too" or "other countries have problems too" are complacent and enablers. The Mexican government is diseased, everyday Mexicans are paying for it and they don't know any better.
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Top-Handle4786 Mar 27, 2026 +4
Im not sure random Internet weirdos are "enablers" (or in any position to do anything meaninful whatsoever), so that might be pushing things a bit.
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hombreingwar Mar 28, 2026 -7
USA could have been a paradise if it hadn’t been ruled by democrats and republicans for the last 30 years
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Spascucci Mar 28, 2026 +3
None of her political oponents were murdered, the politicians killed were mostly candidates from small cities and rural towns running for local positions
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JustChillin3456 Mar 28, 2026 +3
Insane that’s actually The reality Mexicans live with 
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Spascucci Mar 28, 2026 -4
What reality? Most of us live normal lives, Mexico is a big country, and also violence is localized in certain parts of the country like 5 out of the 32 states make up half of the murders
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Sea-Cheesecake301 Mar 28, 2026 +3
This is the problem. Too many Mexicans like you think it's normal for a country to have that level of violence. You still try to make excuses just because "my area is safe and ive never been kidnapped" 130,000 thousand people missing is not normal for a country that isn't a warzone.
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knowingmonster Mar 28, 2026 +1
United States has been infested with neo nazi white nationalist corporate pharmaceutical artificial intelligence that want to burn down the world and has helped arm the cartels for decades and also using strategic cia and fbi political gains to keep that country down. Cannot be trusted
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FireTyme Mar 27, 2026 -23
US government has been infested by oligarchs, russian puppets and pedophiles and cannot be trusted. hungary’s government has been infested by russian puppets and cannot be trusted. honestly we could go on about many more governments. there’s good and bad people everywhere sadly
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Sea-Cheesecake301 Mar 27, 2026 +16
Lmfao I'm not disagreeing with you but whats that got to do with Mexico? It would be like if people were talking about how cancer is bad and some dumb f*** in the room starts talking about how AIDS is bad for whatever reason.
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cagadadechango Mar 27, 2026 +6
It’s the “black lives matter? What about white lives??” discussion all over again .
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FireTyme Mar 27, 2026 -6
no its that saying the government is infested and cannot be trusted isnt productive at all. mexico has done a lot to fight cartels. can it be better? for sure, but similar issues persist in other countries as well. not to mention that the cartels wouldnt be as strong if it werent for the US's broken policy on drugs for years.
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cagadadechango Mar 27, 2026 +18
What a weird comment. This article is about Mexico, so we are focusing on Mexico.
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D18 Mar 27, 2026 -18
They are replying to a comment about “Mexico’s government being corrupted by the cartel” and comparing the situation to other countries. It adds the context that the situation in Mexico is not exceptional. That is valid discussion. Get a grip.
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 +13
Brother over a million people in Mexico have been murdered / kidnapped / trafficked  No this is NOT comparable to other countries, they are being disingenuous  
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TheSuperiorJustNick Mar 27, 2026 -10
>Brother over a million people in Mexico have been murdered / kidnapped / trafficked  Ngl dude. These are small numbers to anyone paying attention to the world.
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TheSuperiorJustNick Mar 27, 2026 -7
>So a million missing Mexicans don't matter If you say so Noone here said or implied that so im not going to address this strawman. > No this is NOT comparable to other countries Yes this is. Simple as that lil bro
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Sea-Cheesecake301 Mar 27, 2026 +4
You are a piece of shit of a human being and is a big part of why problems like this exist in the world. Simple as that lil bro
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TheSuperiorJustNick Mar 27, 2026 -1
FYI You are a massive piece of shit human being when you try to minimize other atrocities.
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TheSuperiorJustNick Mar 27, 2026 -2
I know you are but what am I
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cagadadechango Mar 27, 2026 +4
Oh, in that case don’t forget about Sierra Leone’s government being corrupt too, and Honduras, and Senegal’s, and Cambodia’s. Missing people? Haiti has missing people too, and Egypt, and Canada. Why are even we discussing anything at all, if all countries have problems.
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TheSuperiorJustNick Mar 27, 2026 -5
What part didn't you understand? Wanting to address the actual problem rather than whatever you brought up isn't weird. Your response is very weird though.
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FireTyme Mar 27, 2026 -14
yes, and immediately typing a comment generalizing an entire government to be untrustworthy cuz cartel isn’t productive
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mexican-street-tacos Mar 27, 2026 -5
Didn't the Mexican Govt just take out a cartel recently?
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ClearlyNotBiased Mar 28, 2026
Cia backed iirc
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Filthyquak Mar 27, 2026 +6
I mean probably many just immigrated to the US i assume so they have a point
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Popular_Kangaroo5446 Mar 27, 2026 +7
Roughly 90% of USA missing persons are found alive. Is the above number supposed to be reassuring??
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AustinSpartan Mar 27, 2026 +1
Maybe
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ImaCulpA Mar 27, 2026 +1
Why do we say disappeared instead of missing?
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cagadadechango Mar 27, 2026 +5
I think it’s translated too literally from Spanish’s “desaparecidos”
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Pjpjpjpjpj Mar 28, 2026 +1
The article conflates the two, using "disappear" 9 times and "missing" 7 times. The terms are not interchangeable. The article's figures are about "disappeared" people. Anyone who is unexpectedly unable to be located is simply "missing." ("A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown.) "Disappeared" people are a subset of that. Those are people who are believed to have been removed from society by secret abduction or imprisonment by the state. "Often, forced disappearance implies murder whereby a victim is abducted, may be illegally detained, and is often tortured during interrogation, ultimately killed, and the body disposed of secretly. " Disappearances are a significant global issue, involving regimes that want to silence or eliminant dissent. Mexico tracks these, but it is often a political football, used by one political faction to incriminate the actions of another political faction. There is also no absolute certainty about the cause of someone's status. Mexico tracks and reports these as a class separate from missing children, family abductions, kidnappings for ransom (e.g. drug wars), human trafficking, hiding criminals, and other types of "missing" people.
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 -15
Remember when orange man offered to erase all their cartels with the strongest military on earth ? And the Mexican president said “nah” 
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tweda4 Mar 27, 2026 +10
Do you really think Mexico wants a literal war in their streets? Do you think the US would just send a literal army to fight and die in Mexico for nothing? There was no way it would actually happen, and even if it did happen, there's no doubt there would be endless strings attached.
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 -15
Are you not aware of what’s happening/ been happening in Mexico ? It’s already a war in the streets , at airports etc  “America would send their army for nothing?” Ofc not we would probably ask for something fair in return like secure borders 
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Spascucci Mar 28, 2026 +1
What is happening?, that lasted like one day and happened in just one city everything is back to normal now
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ThenCompetition7365 Mar 27, 2026 +10
Remember when Trump released a cartel leader from El Salvador for no reason?
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 -14
Source ?
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ThenCompetition7365 Mar 27, 2026 +7
I was tempted not even to respond since you are a supporter of Epstein's partner and will reject anything short of praising him, but here you go: I was mistaken, it wasn't El Salvador, it was Honduras: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/juan-orlando-hernandez-freed-after-trumps-full-and-complete-pardon
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JustChillin3456 Mar 28, 2026
> you’re a supporter of Epstein’s partner  😂 lol no  Regardless this is simply whataboutism 
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stoic_spaghetti Mar 27, 2026 +5
Because it's not a fair deal. There's infringement of sovereignty tied to any assistance. Mexico is proud and doesn't want to cede any territory or rights to other countries. Just as the USA wouldn't want Japanese naval bases or Korean military bases in its territory either.
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 -1
What the Mexican president wants = / = what the people of Mexico want Mexicans are sick and tired of being brutalized by cartels As an American if millions of my fellow countrymen were being murdered/ extorted/ kidnapped and trafficked and my government not only refused to do anything about it but was even complicit, then yea I’d be very happy if a foreign nation offered to improve my quality of life 
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stoic_spaghetti Mar 27, 2026 +11
I guarantee you the people of Mexico don't want foreign military presence and bases on their land lol.
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 -1
Out of the two I’m sure most would prefer the latter 
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stoic_spaghetti Mar 27, 2026 +13
Kid you don't have to guess or make assumptions, this is a thoroughly surveyed and researched polling question among the Mexican population— **"Over Three In Four Mexicans Reject Having U.S. Troops On The Ground"** [https://www.latintimes.com/over-three-four-mexicans-reject-having-us-troops-ground-poll-594336](https://www.latintimes.com/over-three-four-mexicans-reject-having-us-troops-ground-poll-594336)
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 +1
So the same amount that hate cartel violence ? https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2011/08/31/crime-and-drug-cartels-top-concerns-in-mexico/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Then by all means they can enjoy the indefinite oppression of narcos 
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stoic_spaghetti Mar 27, 2026 +11
Even though your link is old and from 2011, it STILL proves my point in the third paragraph lol: ***"...Mexicans broadly oppose the deployment of U.S. troops to combat drug traffickers in Mexico (38% support and 57% oppose)..."***
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JustChillin3456 Mar 27, 2026 -2
Right they can enjoy being brutally victimized and I don’t have to worry about losing Americans in the war against cartels  Everyone wins
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dangelovich Mar 27, 2026 -4
Random internet guy says 40,000 of country's 130,000 may have turned into unicorns.
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