The New Bus Station, Chulavista, Oblatos, Santa Anita And Downtown Guadalajara Accumulate 60 Disappearances In 2024: Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from EL OCCIDENTAL 

This information is derived from the search reports published by the State Search Commission.

Víctor Chávez / El Occidental

The five points in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area where most people disappear are the New Truck Station, the Chulavista neighborhood in Tlajomulco, Santa Anita in Tlaquepaque, Oblatos and downtown Guadalajara. These alone have accumulated more than 60 disappearances so far in 2024.

This information comes from the search reports published by the State Search Commission and from an exercise carried out by the researcher and former rector of the University of Guadalajara, Victor Manuel Gonzalez Romero.

He made a list of the 20 points where the most disappearances have been recorded, using a minimum number of six cases per neighborhood.

The list included the Americana, Libertad, Lomas del Paraíso, Morelos, San Juan de Dios, Santa Cecilia, Colinas del Roble, San Agustín and Las Pintitas neighborhoods. Each point with at least six disappearances so far this year.

With seven are the Heliodoro Hernández Loza and Santa Cruz del Valle neighborhoods; while with eight are the Huertas in Tlaquepaque, the Echeverría and Hacienda de Santa Fé.

These 20 neighborhoods add up to 154 disappearances in total, where only 51 have ended with a happy ending since the persons were found, but also in another five cases they were located already dead. 103 have not been located.

The center of Guadalajara reports 10 disappearances, with the location of four people, six of them have not been located. Six were men and four were women. Five of them were underage.

Santa Anita continues, in the limits of Tlaquepaque and Santa Anita, where 10 people have disappeared, only one was located. All 10 were men and all were of legal age.

With 12 disappearances, in third place comes the Oblatos neighborhood located in the east of Guadalajara with 12 disappearances, where 8 people were located, four were not. Seven were men, five women.

The Chulavista neighborhood in Tlajomulco reports a total of 14 disappearances where seven people were located, another one was found but lifeless. Of the total, 12 were men and 2 women, only one was over 18 years old.

And the case of the new Central Camionera, where it has been said by the government of Jalisco that most of them left of their own free will and where there are suspicions that they were recruited. There are 16 disappearances, five were located, 11 were not, and 14 were men, only two were women, only two were of legal age.

SOURCE: EL OCCIDENTAL