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Mexico & Nafta - September 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)
PF commissioner pays price for Tanhuato abuses
Enrique Galindo has been dismissed from his post as commissioner of Mexico’s federal police (PF) by President Enrique Peña Nieto. Galindo’s dismissal ostensibly was a reaction to the release of a new report by the national human rights commission (CNDH) that confirmed that serious human rights violations were committed by PF officers during a violent incident in the municipality of Tanhuato, Michoacán state, in May last year. The change at the helm of the PF thus appears to be intended to show that the government remains sensitive to the issue of human rights violations by the security forces. However, the CNDH and other local human rights groups complain that such gestures are not enough and that the government must undertake sweeping reform of the state security apparatus in order to address this issue.
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