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Weekly Report - 10 November 2011 (WR-11-45)
MEXICO: Neither Rights Nor Security?
President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa received a damning report on the state of Mexico from Kenneth Roth and José Miguel Vivanco, the executive director and Latin American director, respectively, of Human Rights Watch, on 9 November. The report was called: Neither Rights Nor Security: Killings, torture and disappearances in Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’. Just as damning as the report, which focused on the human rights situation in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Guerrero and Tabasco, was the revelation that senior HRW figures had spent days with senior government ministers in Mexico discussing the report which was the product of two years of fieldwork by HRW researchers. These meetings did not modify the report’s outspoken conclusions which blame Calderón directly for the “staggering” increase in the country’s murder rate since he took office on 1 December 2006.
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