A total of 20 bodies were found in clandestine graves in the community of Valencia de Fuentes, in the municipality of Cortázar, Guanajuato. Initially, municipal authorities, led by Mayor Mauricio Estefanía, reported that search collectives and the Prosecutor's Office had located more than 15 bodies on a plot of land in this community, without providing further details on the number or exact locations. However, as the investigations progressed, the state Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the remains were found in various private and mountainous areas, where evidence and human remains were located in at least four different spots. In Mexico, more than 128,000 missing persons are registered, according to the registry of the Secretariat of the Interior, which collects data from the last century. The most affected age group in the country is 25 to 29 years old, with 17,690 people still not located. UN warns of increase in disappearances in Mexico. Mexico concentrates more urgent actions for forced disappearances than any other country in the world and registered a significant increase in recent months, according to the latest update from the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED). The report, published by the organization I(dh)eas, -which brings together various organizations of missing persons,- also warns of serious structural failures in the search for and protection of victims and their families. It states that the country has accumulated 819 urgent actions between 2012 and February 2026 — 38% of the global total — and in the five most recent months (September 2025 to February 2026) alone, it added 40 new requests, more than a third of the world total for the period.
