Overview
- The Centro Flora Tristán and Amnesty International Peru, which relaunched the Búscalas campaign on Wednesday in Miraflores, unveiled a practical guide and urged a dedicated budget classifier for disappearance cases.
- Official data cited in the report show 45,073 disappearance reports from January 2023 to May 2025, 58% involving women with nearly half of them adolescents aged 12–17, and only about 52% located.
- The analysis finds overall public spending rose 17.2% while operational funds went unspent, with MIMP’s goods-and-services execution down about 86% and Program 1002 showing personnel up 335% but goods and services down 81%.
- Operational cuts hit field work such as fuel for patrols, travel, phone geolocation and forensic kits, which weakens police searches, fiscal investigations and even hotlines like 114 that depend on funded teams.
- Organizers link poor execution to fragmented management and the lack of a budget tag that tracks search spending, and families described delayed responses and distrust that discourage reporting and slow urgent searches.