Photos: Missing in Mexico

Eighteen months after those 20 people vanished in Potrero Nuevo, the victims' families still don't know who kidnapped them or why.
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Photos: Missing in Mexico Keith Dannemiller for Newsweek

Eighteen months after those 20 people vanished in Potrero Nuevo, the victims' families still don't know who kidnapped them or why.

A sign along side of the railroad station in Potrero, Mexico. For years residents have reported cases of missing relatives, pleading for the government to help, but thus the requests have fallen on deaf ears. Jan-Albert Hootsen for Newsweek