Mexico: Human Rights at risk

In its most recent report, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the human rights situation in Venezuela, Brasil, México, and Nicaragua . The organization affirms the world is going through “dark times” but that the “resistance” is “going strong” inside institutions and on the streets, especially in Latin America.

The HRW executive director, Kenneth Roth , claimed Mexico is a “human rights catastrophe ”. The report says that “the extreme violence caused by organized crime ” and the “abuses perpetrated by the army , the police , and the prosecutors ” are something that prevails in Mexico , and that the army, police, and prosecutors continue practicing “ extrajudicial murders, enforced disappearances, and torture ” with impunity .

Roth

hopes that Andrés Manuel López Obrador , Mexico's new President , keeps his promise to withdraw the army from the war against drugs, as its participation has been a “disaster” and he hopes that the war against drugs is over, otherwise, it would be “disappointing.”

Ayotzinapa and the absence of human rights

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