Rights Abuse Claims Fall, Remain Alarmingly High, Mexico President Pena Nieto Reports Maurilio Soto - The News
go to original March 14, 2014

MEXICO CITY – President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday that despite advances on human rights issues in recent years, the Mexican government cannot take a triumphalist attitude that assumes all problems have been resolved.

Peña Nieto’s comments were made during the presentation of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) report for 2013. According to the report, complaints of human rights abuses by the Mexican Army fell by 50 percent compared to 2012, although it also warned that the federal police, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) still received an alarmingly high numbers of complaints.

CNDH Director Raúl Plascencia said he is worried about the continued existence of armed self-defense groups in Guerrero and Michoacán, saying they threaten the government’s monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

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