Overview

• The Presidency selected Pérez Gumercindo from a five-candidate shortlist after a Segob-run process that drew 1,155 proposals, 1,642 public inputs and 25 interviews held between August 2 and 9.
• Segob said she could begin duties as soon as Friday, framing the choice as a technical decision focused on operational capacity, legal expertise and empathy for families.
• Pérez Gumercindo previously led the FGR’s specialized office on forced disappearance and held prosecutorial posts in Veracruz, with graduate training in criminal law and criminology.
• Recent Senate-approved changes establish a single identity platform tied to CURP biometrics, a national database of investigation files and mandatory pre-burial genetic and dactyloscopic testing, which the CNB must help implement; a national training drive is planned.
• Mexico reports more than 133,000 people missing and about 73,000 unidentified remains, while rights groups such as Centro Prodh question the process transparency and urge strengthening of the BNDF, the CNIH, the RNPDNO and the national search program.