‘It’s a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico.’ 250,000 Dead. 37,400 Missing. - WSJ

‘It’s a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico.’ 250,000 Dead. 37,400 Missing. - WSJ
EL FUERTE, Mexico—One recent day, a line of grieving mothers armed with picks and shovels worked their way across a muddy field looking for Mexico’s dead and missing, their own children among them.
“It smells bad here,” said Lizbeth Ortega, a member of Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte, or the Trackers of El Fuerte, a group of mothers who look for missing people.
...Some 37,000 people in Mexico are categorized as “missing” by the government.
The vast majority are believed to be dead, victims of the country’s spiraling violence that has claimed more than 250,000 lives since 2006. 
The country’s murder rate has more than doubled to 26 per 100,000 residents, five times the U.S. figure.
Because the missing aren’t counted as part of the country’s official murder tally, it is likely Mexico’s rate itself is higher.
The killing and the number of missing grow each year.
Last year, 5,500 people disappeared, up from 3,400 in 2015.
Mexico’s murders are up another 18% through September this year..."
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