In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that allowed criminal organizations to thrive—and ordinary people have paid the price.
By Graham Denyer Willis, author of Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in BrazilWhat does it mean to disappear, to vanish and never be seen again? Disappearance has long been understood as an explicitly political problem, a question of moonlight military flights over the