Immigration & Border Policy

High-Tech Tools and Unlikely Allies: Mexico’s Grim Search for Missing Victims Exposes Systemic Failures

By Economics Desk | July 29, 2025

As Mexico’s drug cartel violence surges, innovative scientific methods—including buried pigs dressed like humans—are being tested to locate thousands of missing persons, revealing the ongoing crisis left unchecked by authorities.

In the shadows of Mexico’s escalating cartel violence lies a chilling humanitarian crisis: more than 130,000 people have vanished, many believed buried in clandestine graves scattered across cartel-controlled territories. While families bravely search for their loved ones with little official support, government scientists have turned to an unlikely combination of cutting-edge technology and biological proxies—dead pigs—to crack open the mystery of locating these mass graves. Why Are Dead Pigs Leading the Way in Mexico’s Cartel Crisis? Buried beneath the earth in Jalisco—home to one of the most brutal cartels—14 pigs lie as test subjects. Dressed in clothes and manipulated to...

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