MEXICO CITY—The Mexican government on Monday revised upward by as much as 50% the number of citizens classified as missing to more than 61,000. The vast majority of them are victims of the country’s grinding war with powerful drug gangs that have grown more violent.
The new figure from the one-year-old administration of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador compares to about 40,000 cited as missing by the government as recently as June.
