Amnesty International Demands Enrique Pena Nieto Guarantee Human Rights In Mexico Oscar Lopez - Latin Times
go to original May 14, 2014

A woman walks past crosses erected in memory of women killed in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico's state of Chihuahua on the Mexico-United States border with El Paso, Texas. (Reuters)

Amnesty International has called on the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, to address the critical human rights situation in the country through a letter that the agency made public yesterday. The letter, which is copied to the heads of the Interior Ministry, the Attorney General's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador of Mexico in United Kingdom, Diego Gomez Pickering, says that Amnesty International has documented repeatedly that Mexico is rooted in impunity due to the lack of government response to allegations of human rights violations.

According to the letter penned to Peña Nieto "A crucial step is the determination of his government to ensure that law enforcement and other public officials implicated in serious human rights violations, including enforced disappearances and torture are promptly brought to justice and that victims receive compensation.

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