In The Name Of The State: Barbarian Mexican Army Slammed for Drug War Torture

A growing body of evidence points to widespread human rights abuses by the Mexican military in its battle against drug cartels, the Washington Post reports. Human rights groups say the army has responded to the traffickers' brutal tactics with equal brutality, carrying out deadly campaigns of "disappearances," forced confessions, torture, and rape in regions where the cartels are active.

The Mexican government acknowledges that abuses have occurred, but officials insist they are isolated cases. The country's human rights commission is looking into over 2,000 complaints of abuses by the military and has confirmed numerous cases of torture. Congress is holding back $90 million in counter-narcotics aid to Mexico until a State Department human rights report is delivered.

It really takes a lot of cynicism, a lot of hypocrisy, for the United States to say, 'We will give you money to fight drug trafficking as long as you respect human rights.' - José Raymundo Díaz Taboada, director of the Acapulco office of the Collective Against Torture and Impunity

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070804197.html?hpid=topnews
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In The Name Of The State: Barbarian Mexican Army Slammed for Drug War Torture

In The Name Of The State: Barbarian Mexican Army Slammed for Drug War Torture

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