Puebla: human remains found wrapped in bags in Cuautlancingo

A number of human members wrapped in plastic bags were found by inhabitants of the municipality of Cuautlancingo in the middle of vacant land located in the vicinity of El Ameyal Recreational Park, in the municipality of Cuautlancingo, Puebla.

The State Attorney General's Office (FGE) of Puebla carried out the survey of the remains to analyze their DNA and identify them.

The bags were found on Sunday afternoon, at approximately 4:30 p.m., a few meters from El Ameyal Recreation Park and in the vicinity of the Sanctorum CESSA (Expanded Health and Services Center), after a group of villagers, who were exercising in the area, reported a foul smell in the area.

The remains, apparently of a dismembered person, were located on Calle El Carmen, approximately 50 meters from Aldama Street, in Sanctorum. The municipal police of Cuautlancingo was the first respondent.

At the time of the discovery, the inhabitants alerted the authorities through the 911 emergency telephone number.

Municipal agents and FGE experts arrived at the scene to continue the investigations and carry out the process of removing the remains. At the moment, it has not been known whether the physiological fragments would belong to a man or a woman, nor has it been specified which human parts were found.

The phenomenon of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico is not a fact that comes alone, alongside it is the forensic crisis that the country is experiencing. There are currently more than 52,000 unidentified dead people lying in mass graves, facilities of forensic services, universities and forensic protection centers.

This figure, despite its magnitude, does not include bodies not yet located, nor the thousands of fragments of human remains that families and search commissions collect weekly in clandestine graves.

According to several experts interviewed by the United Nations (UN) Committee on Enforced Disappearances, under current conditions it would take 120 years to identify human remains, without count the new bodies that are added every day.

This means that many of those who hope to find their missing relatives would have to wait more than ten decades to find out if the remains of their loved ones were identified.

It should be noted that Baja California, Mexico City, State of Mexico, Jalisco, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas and Nuevo León account for 71.73% of the unidentified bodies.

The structural causes attributed to the forensic crisis include, on the one hand, the increase in levels of violence as a result of the militarization of public security, which is reflected in the number of homicides (27.8 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2020) and in the large number of missing persons: the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, counted as of April 13, 98,944 people whose whereabouts are unknown.

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