Mexico's human rights under fire (BBC)

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By Duncan Kennedy
BBC News, Mexico City

Mexico's human rights record has been severely criticised in a new report by the rights group Amnesty International.

The group says that arbitrary detention and torture are systematic and that it is Mexico's poor who suffer most.

It also highlights the problem suffered by millions of indigenous peoples at the hands of the authorities.

The government's use of soldiers to tackle drugs gangs is criticised but the Mexican government has said that it is working to clean up the abuses.

'Systematic abuses'

Amnesty International cites case after case of people who it says have had their legal rights abused.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6340993.stm

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1. I have been to Mexico several times for vacation

and we always tip all of the wait staff very very well. hey treat people very badly there.