Mexico: Extending Military Policing Threatens Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Hundreds of military troops joined Mexico's national guard on patrol following attacks by criminal groups in Tijuana, August 13, 2022. © 2022 Sipa USA via AP (Washington, DC) – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to formalize and indefinitely extend military control of federal law enforcement tasks poses a serious threat to human rights and transparency, Human Rights Watch said today. On August 25, 2022, Interior Secretary Adan Augusto López announced that President López Obrador plans to send legislation to Congress on September 1 that would formally…

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