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Weekly Report - 11 October 2018 (WR-18-40)

MEXICO: López Obrador slips up

Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete inaugurated a new national search system for enforced disappearances on 9 October, which aims to coordinate action between federal and state governments, and relatives of victims. It was duly savaged by Alejandro Encinas, who will serve as undersecretary for human rights in the interior ministry (Segob) under Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as “too little too late” just two months before the government leaves office. But the incoming government is not in a strong position to criticise the outgoing government. A day earlier, to public consternation and indignation, it had cancelled the five remaining peace and reconciliation forums, championed by López Obrador, in some of the country’s most violent states.

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