Weekly Report - 01 September 2016 (WR-16-34)

Mexico’s federal police commissioner Enrique Galindo was dismissed on 29 August. An official press statement from the interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, said Galindo had been removed on the instructions of President Enrique Peña Nieto “in the light of recent events…and to allow the relevant authorities to carry out an agile and transparent investigation”. No details were given on precisely what “recent events” were being referred to, but 11 days previously the national human rights commission (CNDH) had presented a damning indictment of federal police involvement in a May 2015 armed clash at the Rancho del Sol in Tanhuato, in the western state of Michoacán, in which 42 alleged members of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) drug trafficking organisation (DTO) were killed.

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