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How Researchers Are Using Geospatial Technology to Uncover Mexico's Clandestine Graves

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There are more than 114,000 missing persons in Mexico , and that number is continuing to rise.

Criminal violence in the country is at a record level, largely driven by gangs and drug cartels.

Many of those missing are buried in clandestine graves all across the country.

Scientists from the Center for Research in Geospatial Information Sciences ( CentroGeo ) put technology and data analysis at the service of the searches.

By April 2023 , the number of illegal burials reached 5,696 clandestine graves in Mexico .

More than half of them were detected during the current federal administration.

Remote sensing can be used to locate clandestine graves, says Juan Luis Silván .

The National Search Commission has acquired equipment, but no national strategy exists to deploy these technologies systematically.

CentroGeo researchers work with civil associations such as Regresando a casa Morelos and Fuerzas unidas por nuestros desaparecidos en Nuevo León (FUNDENL) The geographer points out that the investigation is advancing, while the forms and numbers of disappearances are multiplying.

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English

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