Mexico: Lessons from a Human Rights Catastrophe

This article was originally published in the newspaper El Universal in Mexico.  It is the first in a series produced by Human Rights Watch evaluating the human rights record of President Enrique Peña Nieto.     One of the most vexing questions Andrés Manuel López Obrador will face as president of Mexico is what to do about the country’s armed forces. For more than a decade, they have engaged in a “drug war,” with disastrous results for human rights and public security, and a corrosive impact on the rule of law. The problem, in a nutshell, is that the military is operating throughout much of Mexico…

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