Mexico

Mexico wants to establish a DNA database for missing persons. It has created a DNA database of police officers.

Resources

• External links
  • The International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) Lists training from the US to Mexico in DNA forensics.

• Press articles
  • CNN: Mexico must find the 43 Ayotzinapa students (27th March 2015)
  • The Guardian: Bringing up the bodies: Mexico's missing students draw attention to 20,000 'vanished' others (26th November 2014)
  • Al Jazeera: Missing students force Mexico's forgotten crimes to surface (31st October 2014)
  • UNO TV: Hallan narcofosas en Morelos (7th August 2014)
  • Latin American Herald Tribune: Tests Confirm Suspect Is Leader of Mexico’s Tijuana Cartel (26th June 2014)
  • Animal Politico: El banco genético para identificar a desaparecidos sólo ha tenido 2% de éxito(5th June 2014) The genebank to identify missing had only 2% of success.
  • Latin American Herald Tribune: Mexico Sets up Police DNA, Fingerprint and Voice Pattern Registry (20th August 2012)
  • IPSNews: Mexico Creates DNA Database of Migrants (3rd August 2012)
  • IPS (Mexico): DNA Databank to Identify Missing Migrants (8th November 2011)
  • Reuters: Drug war bodies expose flaws in Mexican forensics (5th July 2011)
  • infobae: Mexico crea una base de datos de sus policias por nexos con los narcos (23rd February 2011) Mexico creates a database of their police (including DNA, fingerprints and photos) for ties to drug traffickers.
  • Cronkite News: Pima County, Mexican officials agree to share DNA databases (5th October 2010)