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Bodies of Two Missing Men Identified as Homicide Investigation Opens in Los Cabos

Lodging an official complaint, the state human rights commission joins civil groups preparing a demonstration for August 10

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Overview

  • Genetic analysis by the state prosecutor’s office confirmed that bodies found August 7–8 in a Santa Anita arroyo are those of Xandro Roldán Arce and Pablo García Nevárez.
  • The prosecutor’s office has opened a homicide investigation into the youths’ deaths and suspended the municipal officers implicated in their detention.
  • Prosecutors executed six arrest warrants against municipal police officers suspected in the forced disappearance, and those officers remain suspended pending trial.
  • The Baja California Sur State Human Rights Commission filed an official complaint and requested precautionary measures to protect the victims’ families.
  • Civil society organizations and feminist collectives, including Nosotras con Ellas and Búsquedas San José del Cabo, have called a public mobilization in Cabo San Lucas on August 10 to demand justice and transparency.