Recently, Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto announced a 10 point plan to reform local police departments, abolish municipal governments and establish a national citizen database.

The hope is that in doing away with the local governments the ties with gangs will be severed but as more bodies are discovered light is shed on the violence of the Mexican cartels and possible links to various government sects.

Nieto has acknowledged citizen’s anger towards corruption and promised change; however, the fate Missing 43 has yet to be confirmed.

The reform proposals are nothing more than a hollow attempt to stifle the people’s outrage and again sweep the lives of the missing students under the rug. The government’s inability or refusal to produce the students increases suspicion in regards to their level of involvement in the disappearances.

Mexico has had a long difficult history with gang violence and political corruption and for the first time people are railing against these atrocities. The missing 43 represent more than this single atrocity–they are every violent act that went ignored. They are the face of countless faceless victim of thousands of other crimes against humanity.

As the search for identifiable remains of the 43 continues a haunting number of mass gravesites have been uncovered.

As of Sunday, a van containing 5 decapitated burned corpse and, as of Thursday, 11 identically mutilated bodies in the same region of Chilapa–all remain unidentified. These are only the most recent discoveries believed to be linked to the Beltran cartel and corrupt local governments.

Nieto promise reform, but of what? A reformation of the same corrupt governmental formation. Shifting titles and officials around will do no justice to those who continue to suffer from confusion and misinformation from officials.