Overview

• Hotel Linda employees say a driver checked in Pedro Domínguez García, 75, on August 5 and never returned.
• Staff have housed and fed him since his arrival but report they cannot sustain the costs much longer.
• The hotel has made public appeals for relatives to come forward and is urging authorities to arrange temporary care.
• He arrived without belongings, carrying only an INE voter ID that staff now hold, and he cannot get to the address on it.
• The case has renewed concern about elder neglect in Mexico, where UNAM estimates 16% face abandonment or maltreatment and roughly 20% live in solitude.