Around 6,000 graves in Mexico

In Mexico, over the last twelve years, the issue of mass graves and the disappeared has increased exponentially. The conflict with drug trafficking, declared by Felipe Calderón's administration in 2006, marked the beginning of the increase in missing persons. According to the Mexican government, 26,000 people were registered as missing in 2013. Currently, the number is 130,000. And many of these groups employ a simple method that has led to the discovery of most of the graves: they drive a kind of stake into the ground to find evidence of human remains or mass graves. Silvan points out that "This was the case of the Ayotzinapa students."