IACHR Report Highlights 'Crisis of Violence and Impunity' in Mexico Anahi Rama - Reuters
go to original March 2, 2016

17 months ago, 43 Mexican students were killed. Still, there are no answers for their families. (The Guardian)

Too many crimes, including torture, disappearances and killings, go uninvestigated in Mexico, which is suffering a "serious crisis of violence and impunity," the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) said on Wednesday.

In a new report, the IACHR highlighted repeated failures to get to the bottom of some 27,000 disappearances registered in Mexico as of 2015, as well abuses of power by police and the armed forces in the fight against the country's drug gangs.

The report, which also acknowledged that Mexico has made progress on judicial reforms, followed a government announcement this week about the deaths of five young Mexicans targeted by suspected gang henchmen.

Their remains were ground up after they were mistaken for members of a rival cartel in the eastern state of Veracruz.

The Mexican government criticized the IACHR report, arguing it did not reflect the "general situation" in the country.

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