US Gives Millions to 'Export' Justice to Mexico, But in Border State It's Breaking Bad Kent Paterson - CIP Americas
go to original January 23, 2016

Where violent crime has increased in New Mexico (KOAT)

Violence and corruption in Mexico is getting attention in Washington. More agents and walls on the border, drone surveillance, training of Mexican security forces and official arms sales all figure in as part of Washington”s response.

Under the Merida Initiative first launched during the administration of George W. Bush and then continued in the Obama years, overall U.S. anti-drug and border control aid to the Mexican government reached nearly $2.5 billion from Fiscal Year 2008 to Fiscal Year 2015, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Part of the U.S.-funded Merida money went to supporting good government, justice and “rule of law” reforms aimed at curbing corruption and remolding the notoriously dysfunctional Mexican justice system in the image of the presumably modern and efficient one north of the border.

Left unsaid in the Merida Initiative, however, are the ample instances of corruption that pervade U.S. political, law enforcement and justice institutions. There is no better example than the state of New Mexico.

During the past few years, county jail guards, from big city Albuquerque to little Truth or Consequences, have been accused of brutal beatings, rapes of female inmates and drug-dealing.

Besides violations of U.S. and New Mexico law, such atrocities run counter to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Convention against Torture, the Convention for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and other international laws and agreements.

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