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James Cavallaro, president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), criticized the Mexican government after it did not recognize the serious crisis in human rights that the international organization reported in a report published on Wednesday . In an interview for Aristegui CNN , he maintained that in the country the violations "are obvious" and several were documented, although they recognize the efforts of the Mexican State. After the publication of the IACHR report, the Mexican government shortlisted it and considered that it did not reflect “the general situation of the country . ” In this regard, Cavallaro acknowledged that it is a “very harsh” document, but called for “recognizing that the human rights situation that Mexico faces today is extremely serious. “This is a crisis.” “We analyzed during the last months and years, in several visits by members of the commission, both commissioners and the staff of the executive secretariat. And the entire commission went to Mexico the last week of September. We visited several places in several states.
What we document are forced disappearances, hundreds, thousands of cases. The State has maintained a number of unaccounted for people of 26,798, until last September. Each case is very serious. There are almost 27 thousand. Not all of these cases are necessarily forced disappearances, they are people who have Bahamas Mobile Number List not been located. But in hundreds and thousands of cases there is involvement of State agents. As is the case of Ayotzinapa, as is the case of Tierra Blanca, of the 5 young people (picked up by state police),” said the president of the IACHR. Regarding this last case, he pointed out that Undersecretary Roberto Campa himself recognized that it is a case of infiltration of elements of organized crime in the State.
There is also the issue of extrajudicial executions. The Tlatlaya case is an exemplary case, but there are thousands of people who have died in alleged clashes with military forces in recent years, and when the initial official version is investigated it is not verified,” he recalled. “There is also the situation of torture , which is unfortunately a widespread practice in Mexico . The UN special rapporteur on torture, Dr. Juan Méndez, has also said that,” he noted. Furthermore, “there are other vulnerable groups exposed to very high levels of violence: women (femicides), indigenous people (who are not protected in clashes with extractive industries) and in all these cases what unites the various situations of abuse and rape "It is impunity ," he pointed out. He said that at the IACHR “we recognize advances such as the reforms in the 2011 Constitution, some policies such as the protection mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists,” but “what happens is that the legal framework in Mexico is far from reality . The facts are very compelling.