Weekly Report - 21 October 2003

A month-and-a-half after he had promised to do so, President Vicente Fox last week appointed a federal commissioner for Ciudad Juárez, to deal with the situation created there by the inordinately high rate of murders and disappearances of women [WR-03-35]. He chose lawyer and poet Guadalupe Morfí­n, former president of Jalisco state's human rights commission and member of the consultative commission of the Academia de Derechos Humanos.