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Weekly Report - 23 April 2015 (WR-15-16)
MEXICO: Successes and failures of militarisation strategy
The issue of human rights abuses committed by Mexico’s security forces has been deeply contentious for some time but it has burst to the fore over the course of the last week. Two cases related to massacres and one to torture implicating the army, the federal police (PF) and state police hit the headlines in the space of three days. This is the dark side of the militarisation of public security in Mexico. The federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto has not denied its existence but it stands accused of not doing enough to counter it, preferring instead to focus on the successes of the militarisation strategy, such as the capture of two drug kingpins in operations by Mexico’s security forces in the last week.
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