The Cartel Crisis: Mothers Search for Missing Children in Mexico With Little Help From Officials

As many as 200,000 people have disappeared in Mexico, but parents are left on their own to figure out what happened.

Via Jael Monserrat Vriloe Palmeros's family.
Photos of missing Jael Monserrat Vriloe Palmeros Via Jael Monserrat Vriloe Palmeros's family.

MEXICO CITY — At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, in July 2020, Jael Monserrat Vriloe Palmeros vanished from a Mexico City worker’s residence owned by a local call center. She was a young mother with dreams, swallowed by the darkness of Mexico’s vast crisis of disappearances.

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