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Mexico Drug Fight Fuels Complaints

Date: August 18, 2009

Authors: Ginger Thompson and Marc Lacey

QUOTE: Mexico’s fight against drug traffickers generated a sixfold increase in human rights complaints against the Mexican military between 2006 and 2008, and it is unclear that any of those complaints resulted in prosecutions, according to a State Department report on the effort.

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Key People:

• President Felipe Calderón
• Pres. Barack Hussein Obama Esq.
• Senator Patrick J. Leahy

Key Organizations:

• Human Rights Watch (HRW)
• New York Times Company
• State Department/Department of State (DOS)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Choices/Tolerance/Flexibility
  • Responsibility
  • Tactics

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Human Rights
    • International Relations/Diplomacy
      • Foreign Aid
      • War/Military
        • Military Intervention

• Law & Justice
  • Criminal Law
    • Criminal Justice System
      • Police / Policing
  • Legal Ethics
  • Non-US systems: International Law

• North America
  • Mexico
  • United States of America/USA

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