Overview
- The Fiscalía General de la República, led by Ernestina Godoy, submitted a 2026–2029 plan to the Senate that proposes a new Investigation and Intelligence Model with operational fusion units and an integrity program to rebuild trust.
- The plan makes disappearances a top priority and cites official figures of 130,178 people reported missing since 2006, with only 3,869 cases under active investigation.
- To improve searches and identifications, it calls for stronger forensic tools and records, including upgrades to the National Forensic Data Bank, DNA sampling drives, standardized minimum data for missing persons, and staff deployments in 61 priority municipalities.
- The diagnostic reports weak outcomes in 2025, noting that only 7.14% of federal case files ended in sentences and that 94.6% of convictions came through abbreviated procedures, which the FGR says reflects an overloaded and imbalanced system.
- Senate leaders said they will formally record receipt of the plan, and the FGR, responding to UN scrutiny, rejected claims of a systematic practice of disappearances while preparing to meet UN human-rights chief Volker Türk.