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Mexico’s Supreme Court under Seige
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The course taken by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) last week on the issue of preventive detention (pre-trial detention without bail) is one more example of how the country’s highest court has been tainted by politics and how its justices have abdicated their responsibility to politicians. The debate over the use of preventive detention,
Read moreNational Guard Absorption Highlights Armed Forces’ Human Rights Violations
OPINION By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s civilian policing body the National Guard prepares to be integrated into the Mexican Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) as decreed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), experts have expressed concerns about the move’s potential to exacerbate the Armed Forces’ repeated human rights violations – especially considering that the National Guard has, too, been
Read moreJustice Remains Elusive for Mexico’s Disappeared and Missing
By MEREL HAENEN On Oct. 21, 2019, relatives of Mónica Ruth Rojas reported her disappearance after she did not return after a day’s work from a factory only a few blocks from her home in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico (EdoMéx). A year later, her lifeless body was found not far from where she was last reportedly seen, differentiating her case
Read moreMexican Supreme Court Maintains Pretrial Detention
By MARK LORENZANA Four justices of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on Monday, Sept. 5, refused to approve, as presented, a proposal that seeks to eliminate forced preventive detention (jail without bail) in the country. The judges who categorically rejected the proposal were Justices Yasmin Esquivel, Loretta Ortiz and Alberto Pérez Dayan, while on the last
Read moreThe US Must Not Forsake Afghanistan
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE One year after the fall of Kabul and departure of U.S. troops, the United States still has an important policy and action agenda regarding Afghanistan, but with less leverage in a country suffering serious problems. Millions in Afghanistan face the dire effects of a devastating humanitarian and economic crisis. The Taliban government is focused on installing
Read moreEbrard Wants to Extradite Zerón from Israel over Ayotzinapa Case
By KELIN DILLON Following the apprehension of former Mexican Federal Attorney General (FGR) Jesús Murillo Karam on Friday, Aug. 19, for his purported role in covering up the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014, Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced his intention to go after the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Tomás Zerón
Read moreAn Arduous Path to Justice for Mexico’s Disappeared
OPINION By MEREL HAENEN Nearly 14 inconclusive years have passed since Dan Jeremeel Fernández Morán was last seen driving in the vicinity of Gomez Palacio, a small Mexican town around three hours north of Durango’s state capital, on Dec. 19, 2008. The day of his disappearance, his mother, Yolanda Morán Isaís, was expecting him to arrive at a nearby, local
Read moreDemocracy in Mexico Continues to Erode under AMLO
OPINION By MARK LORENZANA The word democracy is a combination of two Greek words: demos, which means “people” and kratos, which means “rule.” The ancient Greeks, after all, are credited with inventing democracy as a form of government. In Mexico, though, “the rule of the people” has been steadily replaced by the rule of one man — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Read moreRemaking Mexico in Cuba’s Image
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than three and a half years of the same old spiel (“neoliberals are to blame for everything that’s wrong with the country,” “the conservative press are all unscrupulous liars,” and that most absurd claim of all, “my government is not corrupt”), it seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is finally beginning
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