El Daily Post
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 06:45
When Mexico’s Southern Border Plan was announced a year ago, half of its mission was said to be reducing rights violations against migrants passing through Mexico from Central America on their way to the United States. Quite the opposite has happened.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 07:21
Mexican human rights organizations have revealed a military document that orders troops to operate at night to kill criminals. That order would appear to violate military protocol and constitute condoning gross abuses of civilians' rights.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:42
Mexico’s top human rights body and the United Nations say that state and federal authorities have only partially complied with their recommended measures for dealing with the events of June 30, 2014 in the town of Tlatlaya in the State of Mexico.
Monday, June 29, 2015 - 07:18
Impunity and corruption were serious problems in Mexico in 2014, according to a new human rights report released by the U.S. State Department. So were extra-legal executions, disappearances, torture, intimidation of journalists, and a long list of other abuses. But most Mexicans were already well aware of the problems.
Friday, June 26, 2015 - 06:39
After two years of declining homicide rates, the trend has been upward for the last three months. New figures reveal that May was the deadliest month since at least January of 2014, and that 2015 may be the first year during the Peña Nieto administration that ends with an increase in the murder rate.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:49
Two years ago, the Special Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons was created. It may search, but it doesn’t find. In that period, only 112 of the nearly 27,000 missing persons have been located.