A place where no one seems to be safe from torture

Headline Title:  Mexico's Torture Epidemic 05 March 2013 People across Mexico, but particularly in the north of the country, seem to walk in fear, and not only of organized crime.Perhaps it is because anyone can be caught up in the ongoing deadly conflict between the security forces and criminal drug trafficking gangs.Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have recorded thousands of cases of human rights abuses against a wide range of ordinary people, including arbitrary arrests and torture.In fact, the human rights group believes that over the past few…

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