Missing persons crisis: who are the other women who have not been able to return to their families

The tragic case of Debanhi Escobar, the 18-year-old girl who was found dead in the cistern of a motel in Nuevo León, highlighted, once again, Mexico's delicate situation with regard to the murders and disappearances of women.

The case has been seen as a sample of the double crisis of gender violence and disappearances in Mexico, where more than 10 women are murdered a day and there are more than 99,000 people unlocated since 1964, according to figures from the Mexican government itself.

However, most of the missing or murdered women in the country do not reach the same media level and the impact that the Debanhi Escobar case had in recent days.

In Nuevo León, the state where Debanhi died, there has been a wave of disappearances with at least thirty women still unlocated.

Yolanda Martinez, 26, disappeared since March 31 after being last seen in the Constituyentes de Querétaro colony in San Nicolás, Nuevo León.

According to the statements of her father, Gerardo Martínez, the last thing that was known about Yolanda's activities was that she stayed to sleep at her grandmother's house in San Nicolás and from there she went to look for work.

Her father claimed that Yolanda had been interested in a job application but said he did not know if the company was located in the San Nicolás region or was located in another region.

In Baja California, Jessica Durán, 31 years old, is wanted by her family. The last time she was seen was Tuesday, April 19 at 10:00 a.m., when she took a taxi with a chauffeur she knew and who took her to the bar “El Tropical”, located in northern Tijuana.

Apparently, Jessica entered the establishment, but that was the last thing her family knew about her. Since then his phone has been turned off.

In the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, on April 8, Mitzy Tonanzin López Cruz, a student from the Eastern College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) of the UNAM, was last seen on April 8 when she went out for routine studies in a laboratory and no longer returned.

Paola Yazmín Molina, 15, has not been seen since April 17. The last place where she was seen was at her home in the San Vicente subdivision of Mérida, Yucatán, without any information as to date as to her whereabouts.

Diana Laura Rangel Chávez, a student at the College of Sciences and Humanities, Naucalpan campus, is the name of a young woman whose whereabouts are still unknown.

It has been seven days since she left her home on April 17 and so far she is not known about her. According to information from her relatives, Diana left her home around noon last Sunday and was going to Bellas Artes, an emblematic cultural site, located in the Historic Center of Mexico City, but never returned.

According to the Amber Alert from Mexico, nothing has been heard about Diana Laura Rangel, 17 years old and originally from the State of Mexico; nor about Yessica Hernandez Hernandez, age 16 and San Luis Potosí; nor about Diana Hernandez Martínez, age 13; nor about Liliana Hernández Martínez, age 17; and Laura Brigitte Gonzalez Amador, 16 years old.

This Sunday feminist collectives marched in Mexico City to demand justice for the cases of femicide that have caused great indignation among citizens.

According to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), the states with the highest number of cumulative femicides in 2021 were the State of Mexico (Edomex) with 132, followed by Jalisco and Veracruz with 66 cases, both entities; Mexico City (CDMX) recorded 64 gender-based killings of women and Nuevo León 57.

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