Mothers of missing people arrive in the capital after marching from Tapachula.

Tuesday is Mother’s Day and National Day of Dignity in Mexico.

The official total of missing people in Mexico stands at 98,356 – as of MAY 2.

Mexico’s rate of missing people is only surpassed in Latin America by war-torn Colombia.

Authorities and families continue to search for people who disappeared in the 1960s through to today.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government was the first to recognise the extent of the problem, to talk of “extermination sites” and mount effective searches.

But he also promised in 2019 that authorities would have all the resources they needed. The national commission, which was supposed to have 352 employees this year, still has just 89.

Aljazeera/Agencies.