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Mexico & Nafta - July 2018 (ISSN 1741-444X)
UN condemnation of Tamaulipas disappearances crisis
Mexico’s widespread plague of ‘disappearances’ has long been described by domestic human rights organisations as one of the greatest challenges facing the country, and yet for years it has broadly evaded international attention. The recent condemnation of events in the northern border state of Tamaulipas by Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, therefore demonstrates the dramatic extent of this latest wave of disappearances. Speaking on 30 May, Zeid called for the Mexican authorities to take action to stop the disappearances centred in the city of Nuevo Laredo and added weight to the suggestions that state officials and the local security forces are complicit in the worst of these human rights abuses.
- Introduction
- Damning report details Mexico’s many forms of inequality
- Controversy over water decrees illustrates government unpopularity
- Mexico ponders legalisation of recreational marijuana use
- UN condemnation of Tamaulipas disappearances crisis
- Venezuelan women victims of sexual trafficking in Mexico
- Economic Highlights