The Mexican Government Isn't Thrilled With a New Report on Torture and Illegal Killings

[Judi Lynn]

The Mexican Government Isn't Thrilled With a New Report on Torture and Illegal Killings

By Alan Hernández

March 2, 2016 | 4:05 pm

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has slammed the Mexican government for making the country's "very serious" human rights crisis worse by not doing enough to tackle impunity.

The critical report triggered a vehement response from the government that called it "biased" and "unfounded," and insisted that it misrepresents both the problems the country faces, and the efforts being made to deal with them.

The report, released on Wednesday and based on a visit to Mexico carried out by members of the Commission in September, places its critique firmly within the context of the country's drug wars that, according to estimated figures from the United Nations, had killed over 150,000 people by mid-2015.

It blames the military-led offensive launched by former President Felipe Calderón in December 2006 for both failing to contain criminal violence and encouraging human rights violations. It says that these have continued unabated during the current administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

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1. Link to Report

Here is a link to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report.

http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/reports/pdfs/Mexico2016-en.pdf

[Judi Lynn]

2. This report is going to be very helpful.

Just scanned the opening of the Executive Summary and they immediately place the start of the extreme violence in 2006, when Felix Calderón and George W. Bush kicked off the militarization of the "war on drugs," with what some termed "Plan Mexico." That's when everything hit the fan, instantly.

So looking forward to getting some time to look at this material from the Organization of American States. I hope they will put the truth out there where it belongs this time.

Thank you, so much.