Oaxaca rolls out US $40M investment in public safety and victim support as disappearances rise

The confederate authorities of Oaxaca volition walk an unprecedented 712 cardinal pesos (US $40 million) to overhaul its nationalist information and unfortunate enactment operations during 2026.

In a property league announcing the initiative, Governor Salomon Jara Cruz said the caller allocation of resources, which volition absorption connected equipment, exertion and constabulary salaries, volition marque Oaxaca’s national extortion fund 1 of the nation’s largest for the 3rd consecutive year.  

Karina Barón Ortiz, who heads the Executive Secretariat of the State Public Security System of Oaxaca, explained that this historical concern is made up of a national publication of 312.2 cardinal pesos (US $18.36 million) and a authorities concern of 399.9 cardinal pesos (US $23.52 million).

Barón added that these resources are portion of the concern program for 2026 to fortify the infrastructure, instrumentality and cognition of information corporations. 

With the investment, the authorities authorities volition question to support its information instrumentality up to day by purchasing 65 accelerated effect patrol vehicles, 81 motorcycle patrols, 8,025 uniforms and 2,020 video surveillance cameras, successful summation to renewing 430 firearms. 

It volition besides renovate tactical gear, ballistic shields, and high-end radios, successful summation to acquiring drones and aesculapian laboratory products for research.

Crucially, constabulary officers volition person a 17.24% wage increase.

“Beyond the numbers and percentages, this is an enactment of justness and dignity,” Barón said.  We cognize that down each azygous determination is simply a home, daughters and sons who spell to school, arsenic good arsenic hopes and dreams.” 

She added, “A well-paid constabulary officer, valued and respected by his government, is an incorruptible constabulary officer, dedicated and committed to the defence of his people.” 

A ‘make your ain forensic kit’ store sparks controversy

The Oaxaca municipality of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec was the taxable of a nationalist contention aft women activists criticized a escaped store scheduled connected behalf of Women’s Day, which called connected women to hole their ain forensic kits successful lawsuit of a disappearance.

The activity, which was canceled, invited participants to bring a blouse they had worn passim the day, arsenic good arsenic a recent, unfiltered, printed photograph.  

“The State’s work is to forestall disappearances, and connected apical of not being capable to bash that, present they are besides placing the load connected women to make their ain files to find if they are victims of disappearance,” the Brujas de Mar feminist corporate told the newspaper El Universal.

According to the municipality, the event’s head has been removed from her position.

A caller study by the Red Lupa of the Mexican Institute for Human Rights and Democracy recovered that disappearances successful Oaxaca are connected the rise, having accrued by 81.8% successful the past 3 years. 

The study besides revealed that retired of the 760 radical who disappeared successful Oaxaca successful 2025, 34.93% were women.

With reports from La Crónica de Hoy, Ciudadanía Express and Reporte Índigo