Mexican president pledges stronger missing persons efforts after mass grave found

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she is signing a decree to strengthen the commission responsible for helping to search for missing persons and will send further reforms to Congress, following the discovery of a mass grave last week. Civilian activists found a mass grave last week in a ranch in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, with ashes, bones and hundreds of items of clothing that are still being checked by authorities, along with ovens possibly used to cremate bodies. Sheinbaum said she will send a reform to Congress on Thursday that would make it easier to identify missing persons, organize information about them and their cases, and make numbers of missing people more transparent.