Various human rights organizations and search collectives, such as Fundar, Data Cívica, Centro Prodh, Cepad, among others, have expressed deep concern and rejection following the presentation of the figures from the National Register of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDNO). The organizations accuse the government's strategy of representing a political decision that invisibilizes victims and minimizes the magnitude of the tragedy by attempting to reduce it to a simple management of ministerial files. Centro Prodh wrote: “... the initial premise that no forced disappearances are committed or that the majority of disappearances are related to voluntary absences minimizes the responsibility of the State, contrary to what international organizations have previously highlighted. Reducing the number of disappeared persons to 43,128 minimizes the dimension of a crisis that has a human face and that is not resolved with administrative searches in public records”. The joint stance of organizations like Fundar, Data Cívica, Cepad, Elemental, Ibero and IMDHD points out that “suggesting that opening an investigation file is essential to carry out search actions diminishes the right of all persons to be searched for”. The organizations criticize the presentation of the “obligation” to open investigation files as a novelty, clarifying that this has been a legal duty since 2017. They emphasize that in a country where the dark figure of unreported crimes is 93%, conditioning the recognition of a disappeared person to an investigation file distorts reality and rewards the inefficiency, corruption, and omission of the prosecutor's offices. Minimization of the number of missing persons The organizations reject the attempt to cap the number of missing persons at 43,128, recalling that the historical registry reports more than 132,000 disappearances, a figure achieved through the struggle of families. They also expressed alarm that no search actions have been announced for the more than 46,000 records classified as “insufficient data,” once again leaving the burden on the families. The organizations reject the official discourse that states that forced disappearances no longer exist and that the phenomenon is exclusive to organized crime. They warn that this erases the State's responsibility, whether through direct participation, acquiescence, omission, or by perpetuating a 99.9% impunity. The position signed by 10 organizations questions the governmental assertion that 96% of located persons were not victims of crimes, pointing to a total lack of methodological clarity. Furthermore, they recalled that findings of people alive in the first hours are usually the result of family mobilization and their networks, not the State. Civilian organizations accuse the government of minimizing the crisis of disappearances.
