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