Significance: Gómez’s senate appearance follows a succession of lacerating critiques of the human rights situation in Mexico by international bodies. Just days previously, on 2 October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released the initial findings of a five-day fact finding mission to Mexico, which highlighted human rights violations in Mexico as “a structural problem” stretching back decades. The government bridled at the criticism. The day before Gómez went before the senate, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein, visiting Mexico for talks, among others with President Enrique Peña Nieto, fully endorsed the IACHR’s findings and reproached the Mexican government for its “intolerance of public criticism”.
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