32 Missing Persons Identified in Quintana Roo After 3 Years

Cancún, January 29. The Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO) has successfully identified the bodies of 32 people who had been missing for more than three years, originating from both Quintana Roo and other states in the country, after cross-referencing their fingerprints with the database of the National Electoral Institute (INE).

The information was disseminated by Romana Rivera, president of the collective Verdad, Memoria y Justicia, who through social media published the list of the now-identified victims, whose remains are currently under custody at the Forensic Cemetery of the State of Quintana Roo.

“We invite families and society to review the collective’s page, to help ensure that each face is not forgotten and that families can recover their loved ones. Every person deserves a dignified return home,” wrote Rivera, while also calling on citizens to collaborate to “close the search cycles and restore identity, memory, and peace.”

After the publication, users began sharing search files of missing relatives, requesting support to locate them “before they go to the common grave.”

For her part, María Patrón Pat, president of the collective Madres Buscadoras de Quintana Roo, reported that of the more than 800 long-standing bodies that remained at the SEMEFO facilities in Cancún, with support from the INE, the last 32 pending individuals were identified in the first days of this year.

She explained that the main task now is disseminating their files so that relatives can come forward to claim the bodies.

With this last group identified, she noted, the SEMEFO is practically free of old bodies, leaving only those that have been recently admitted, although the current number was not specified.