ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on understanding the development of forensic anthropology in Mexico, aimed at the eventual identification of the human remains found after their forced disappearance by the State. It seeks to identify the conformation of forensic anthropology teams (EAF) in the country. Post-revolutionary politics managed to put together a social welfare State for a society that was dissimilar, reunited in a centralised and authoritative State, where the decisions were taken by the federal executive branch. The 1980s saw the shift of the welfare policy into a neoliberal policy. The crisis of the capitalist economic model brought along a series of changes that transformed the State’s control and its corporate hegemony. As the economic crisis deepened, the instrumentation of recommendations dictated by the international organisations accelerated and gave way to an era of violence. The demands for clarification regarding the crimes of the past were strengthened after the Prosecutor’s Office had closed.
