Increased Disappearances in the Americas - Sierra Perez

According to the article, "Disappeared in El Salvador: The return of a Cold War nightmare" by Mary Beth Sheridan and Anna-Catherine Brigida, following the Cold War in Latin America there has been an increase of tens of thousands of people disappearing due to their political views. Nowadays latin countries such as Mexico, Brazil and El Salvador there are criminal wars where gangs and drug cartels have fought the governments instead. In Mexico more than 3,000 "clandestine gravesites" have been dug up to search for the 40,000 missing people and the same situation is very similar in El Salvador. Now that El Salvador is a democracy there has been a resurrection of these disappearances due to the fact that it is easier for killers to avoid deep investigations because there has been no bodies found. The other reason has been said as a political strategy. it has been suspected that the gangs and the government hide the corpses to keep the homicide rate down because they carry one of the highest percentages in the hemisphere. Even with recent news of Mexicos cartels and gangs taking over the government in Culiacan and forcing them to realize El Chapos son. How many more people need to be in danger for other countries to step in and help the people? To take in refugees? I find it heartbreaking to think there is this much danger in one place.  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/disappeared-in-el-salvador-amid-a-cold-war-nightmares-return-a-tale-of-one-body-and-three-grieving-families/2019/10/19/d806d19a-e09d-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html