Between two thousand six and 20 16, more than two thousand clandestine graves were found. The current pres an andres manuel lopasobrodo has a strategy known as hugs, not bullets. He thinks he can tackle crime with welfare programmes, which is disputed by many people. Some estimates say it would take the forensic services 35 years to deal with a back log of all the dead bodies they have.
The city remains Ukraine’s only provincial capital to be taken by Russian forces—can Ukraine overcome its shortages of manpower and firepower to
retake the province? Mexico’s official missing-persons list has topped 100,000; our correspondent describes the
skyrocketing total and piecemeal efforts to slow its rise. And research suggests that people choose their friends at least in part
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