<p>Mexico City: 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.</p><p>Mexico has over 124,000 missing people, according to government data, largely a result of drug cartel violence.</p><p>Murdered people are often buried in clandestine - sometimes mass - graves. Authorities lack the resources to bring answers to the families of missing people.</p><p>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.</p>.Mexico builds temporary shelters to prepare for mass deportations from US.<p>The discovery spurred a national outcry. Protests and vigils took place on Saturday afternoon across the country to demand more official actions.</p><p>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.</p><p>She also said it would no longer be necessary to wait 72 hours to start investigating a disappearance and there would be a clear distinction between kidnappings and missing persons cases.</p><p>"We're working with three government entities, which is fundamental to avoid impunity," she said. "It's very important that families report disappearances...and it's our obligation to provide support (for the families)."</p><p>Sheinbaum said officials would provide information about the investigation into the Jalisco case on Wednesday. Authorities have not given an estimate of how many bodies were in the grave.</p><p>Last week, the state prosecutor's office said it had set up a online platform detailing nearly 600 items recovered at the ranch in western Mexico that may have been a base to burn bodies and bury the remains.</p><p>The items include suitcases, backpacks and pieces of clothing. The platform is public, allowing people to identify them.</p><p>Tests are also being carried out on hundreds of items of clothing, bullet casings of various calibers and skeleton fragments.</p>
<p>Mexico City: 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.</p><p>Mexico has over 124,000 missing people, according to government data, largely a result of drug cartel violence.</p><p>Murdered people are often buried in clandestine - sometimes mass - graves. Authorities lack the resources to bring answers to the families of missing people.</p><p>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.</p>.Mexico builds temporary shelters to prepare for mass deportations from US.<p>The discovery spurred a national outcry. Protests and vigils took place on Saturday afternoon across the country to demand more official actions.</p><p>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.</p><p>She also said it would no longer be necessary to wait 72 hours to start investigating a disappearance and there would be a clear distinction between kidnappings and missing persons cases.</p><p>"We're working with three government entities, which is fundamental to avoid impunity," she said. "It's very important that families report disappearances...and it's our obligation to provide support (for the families)."</p><p>Sheinbaum said officials would provide information about the investigation into the Jalisco case on Wednesday. Authorities have not given an estimate of how many bodies were in the grave.</p><p>Last week, the state prosecutor's office said it had set up a online platform detailing nearly 600 items recovered at the ranch in western Mexico that may have been a base to burn bodies and bury the remains.</p><p>The items include suitcases, backpacks and pieces of clothing. The platform is public, allowing people to identify them.</p><p>Tests are also being carried out on hundreds of items of clothing, bullet casings of various calibers and skeleton fragments.</p>