Weekly Report - 06 August 2009 (WR-09-31)
MEXICO: US doubts about Mexico's security strategy
The US human rights lobby scored its first big success on 5 August when an influential US senator, Patrick Leahy, prevented the US State Department from certifying that Mexico was respecting human rights in its war against organised crime. Worryingly for the Mexican government, the senator made his move just ahead of the Mexico-US-Canada presidential summit in Guadalajara on 9 and 10 August.
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