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Take Two

Mothers of Mexico's 'disappeared' end hunger strike

By Take Two Staff
Published May 21, 2013
Part of a group of mothers taking part in a hunger strike are seen in a tent in front of the Attorney General building in Mexico City on May 9, 2013. The mothers are demanding that the government investigate the disappearance of their children, which they say have gone missing due to the drug war that the government started in 2006.
Part of a group of mothers taking part in a hunger strike are seen in a tent in front of the Attorney General building in Mexico City on May 9, 2013. The mothers are demanding that the government investigate the disappearance of their children, which they say have gone missing due to the drug war that the government started in 2006.
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YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images
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A group of mothers in Mexico recently concluded a two-week hunger strike, which began to demand that Mexico's Attorney General do something about the thousands of people who have gone missing in recent years. 

The Mexican government recently said it will create a special unit to investigate these cases. For more on this Dudley Althaus, The Global Post's senior correspondent for Mexico and Central America.