2026年4月18日 / 美国东部时间下午12:51 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
当局和一个志愿者团体表示，墨西哥城一处湖泊附近发现了逾1000块骨骼碎片，此时距离该市承办世界杯仅剩数周——这再次让人联想到该国暴力频发的毒品战争。
一个寻找失踪亲人的家属团体在一份声明中表示，查尔科湖附近的这些可怕发现，揭露了“令人心碎的现实”和“一场规模难以估量的法医危机”。
该团体称：“当局希望此事不被关注，但家属们希望全世界都能知晓该国首都正在发生的悲剧。”
墨西哥城市当局于上周开始对墨西哥城东部的湖滨遗址进行挖掘，检察官周一宣布，已发现约300块骨骼碎片，他们认为这些碎片可能属于3名死者。
但该志愿者团体表示，他们在该遗址及其周边区域，包括已经被政府人员检查过的区域，发现了逾1000块骨骼碎片。
2026年4月15日，墨西哥墨西哥城特拉瓦克-查尔科湖的搜救行动中，失踪人员团体成员和墨西哥城司法当局人员参与其中。据当地媒体报道，此处已发现数百块骨骼碎片。哈龙·阿尔瓦雷斯 / 路透社
自2006年政府派遣联邦军队打击该国强大的贩毒集团以来，墨西哥毒品战争已造成超过48万人死亡，另有13万人失踪。
联合国一个专家委员会将失踪人员危机称为“危害人类罪”，称找回人类遗体的工作因“公职人员的默许和不作为”而受阻。
委员会主席胡安·阿尔万-阿伦卡斯特罗在一份声明中表示：“国际法并不要求危害人类罪在全国范围内发生，或是由政府最高层策划。重要的是袭击的规模、模式以及针对平民的针对性。”
墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·辛鲍姆对该报告提出抨击，称其忽视了为支持失踪者家属而实施的新政策。
在周五与市政官员的会议上，活动人士要求不间断开展搜救工作，直至该遗址得到全面检查。
墨西哥城和瓜达拉哈拉都在为6月的世界杯赛事做准备，两座城市的抗议者都在谴责政府未能妥善调查失踪案件。美国和加拿大共同承办本届世界杯。
官方数据显示，瓜达拉哈拉所在的哈利斯科州有超过15900起失踪人员案件，专家将这一数字归咎于哈利斯科新一代贩毒集团的活动。该贩毒集团被指控利用虚假招聘广告诱骗新成员，并对反抗的招募对象施以酷刑和杀害。
今年2月，墨西哥军方击毙了哈利斯科新一代贩毒集团头目、美国头号通缉毒枭之一内梅西奥·“门乔”·奥塞格拉，随后爆发了多起暴力事件。事件发生后，国际足联重申对该主办城市的信心。
哈利斯科州经常发现人类遗体，有时是在秘密坟墓中。本月早些时候，在瓜达拉哈拉郊区伊斯蒂拉瓦坎的一处乡村地块的隐藏坟墓中，发现了至少11具人的骸骨。去年10月，瓜达拉哈拉附近一处隐藏坟墓中发现并找回了数十袋人类遗体。
2026年4月12日，墨西哥墨西哥城“失踪者环岛”，一名男子在一场为提高人们对墨西哥失踪人员危机认识而举办的业余足球赛期间，用手机拍摄失踪人员海报。这场比赛是在世界杯前夕举办的。丹尼尔·卡德纳斯/安多拉通讯社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
More than 1,000 bone fragments found in Mexico City weeks before World Cup: “Devastating reality”
April 18, 2026 / 12:51 PM EDT / CBS/AFP
More than 1,000 bone fragments have been found near a lake in Mexico City, authorities and a volunteer group said, just weeks before it hosts the World Cup — another grim reminder of the country’s violent drug war.
A collective of families looking for their loved ones said the gruesome findings near Lake Chalco demonstrated a “devastating reality” and “a forensic crisis of incalculable dimensions.”
While “the authorities want this to go unnoticed, the families want the whole world to know the tragedy that occurs in the country’s capital,” the group said in a statement.
City authorities last week began exhuming the lakefront site in the eastern part of Mexico City, and prosecutors announced Monday that some 300 bone fragments, which they believe could belong to three people, had been found.
But the volunteer group said they found more than 1,000 bone fragments in and around the site, including in areas which had already been examined by government agents.
Members of missing persons collectives and Mexico City’s judicial authorities take part in a search operation at the Tlahuac‑Chalco lakes, where, according to local media, hundreds of bone fragments have been found, in Mexico City, Mexico, April 15, 2026. Haaron Alvarez / REUTERS
More than 480,000 people have been killed and another 130,000 have gone missing in Mexico’s drug war since 2006, when the government deployed federal troops to take on the country’s powerful cartels.
A U.N. committee of experts has called the missing persons crisis a “crime against humanity,” saying efforts to recover human remains have been hampered by “acquiescence and omission on the part of public servants.”
“International law does not require crimes against humanity to occur nationwide or be orchestrated at the highest levels of government,” committee chair Juan Albán-Alencastro said in a statement. “What matters is the scale, the pattern of the attacks, and the targeting of civilians.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attacked the report, arguing it ignored new policies implemented to support the families of the missing.
In a meeting with city officials on Friday, the activists demanded that searches be carried out without interruption until the site is fully inspected.
Both Mexico City and Guadalajara are preparing to host World Cup games in June, with protesters in both cities denouncing the government’s failure to properly investigate the disappearances. The United States and Canada are co-hosting the Cup.
Guadalajara is located in the state of Jalisco, which has more than 15,900 cases of missing persons, a toll that experts attribute to the activities of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, official data shows. The cartel has been accused of using fake job advertisements to lure new members and of torturing and killing recruits who resist.
In February, Mexican military forces killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and one of the United States’ most-wanted drug lords, leading to an outbreak of violence. After the incident, FIFA reaffirmed its confidence as a host city.
Human remains are routinely found in Jalisco, sometimes in clandestine graves. Earlier this month, the skeletal remains of at least 11 people were found in hidden graves in a rural lot in Ixtlahuacan, a suburb of Guadalajara. Last October, dozens of bags containing human remains were discovered and recovered from a hidden grave near Guadalajara.
A man takes photos with his phone of posters of missing persons during a pickup ssoccer game, held to raise awareness of Mexico’s missing persons crisis ahead of the FIFA World Cup, at the so-called ‘Roundabout of the Disappeared’ in Mexico City, Mexico on April 12, 2026. Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu via Getty Images
