A role against disappearance?
The Mexican bureaucracy announced an agreement. The Legal Department of the State of Mexico, its Search Commission and the famous Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team signed a paper. The stated objective: strengthen the search and identification of missing migrants.
Sounds good, right? Even hopeful. But for years I have seen how agreements are signed with great fanfare, and then shelved.
“The agreement aims to add technical, scientific and forensic capabilities to support families of victims,” says the official statement.
The collaboration would allow, in theory, the intervention of specialists and the exchange of methodologies for forensic investigation and identification of remains. The focus would be on the State of Mexico and the dangerous migratory routes to the United States.
This is where my institutional cynicism kicks in. How many similar agreements have already been signed? Memory is short, but the shelves in the offices are full of documents that changed nothing.
The authorities sell it as “an important step in the fight for justice.” I see it as another procedure. The true proof is not in the signature, but in the results. Where families finally receive answers, not just printed promises.
In the meantime, we will continue counting the cases. And making sure that this role does not end up being, like so many others, pure smoke.
