Amnesty International warned that human rights violations by the Army and the National Guard persisted in Mexico in 2024, while showing a “enormous concern” for the crisis of missing persons in the country, according to their report “the situation of human rights in the world.”
“The disappearances were a huge concern, but there is concern that the government has minimized the scale of the problem,” said the report.
In 2024, according to official data, more than 13,000 people disappeared in Mexico were counted and the total figure since the 1960s, when the records began, exceeds 120,000.
In this sense, AI’s report stressed “the concerns of civil society organizations that the Government was trying to deny the crisis and lower the official number of disappeared.”
President Claudia Sheinbaum announced in March reforms to use “all force of the State” in the face of protests for the disappearances, after the discovery of a field linked to drug trafficking in Jalisco, and where activists have denounced that people allegedly disappeared.
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Among the measures, the president highlighted the creation of the “Unique Forensic Information” with data from the 32 State Prosecutors and the Attorney General’s Office, as well as a new “Federal Human Identification Platform”.
‘Judicial independence threatened by constitutional amendments’
On the other hand, Amnesty International stressed that “arbitrary arrests continued without decreasing and judicial independence was threatened by constitutional amendments.”
The report also recalled that “in the 17 years since the work of the Mexican Army began in public security operations, the number of disappearances and murders continued to increase.”
“Human rights violations by the military and the National Guard continued, including possible extrajudical executions, impunity persisted,” he said.
Likewise, the non -governmental organization indicated that in Mexico the “human rights defenders, journalists and activists are at risk of criminalization, excessive use of force, violence and death.”
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Specifically, the report remarked that four journalists and nine defenders of the Environment had been killed in relation to their work during the past year in Mexico, which made the country “one of the most dangerous in the world” to carry out these activities.
Finally, the report warned that the 2024 presidential election obtained by Victoria Sheinbaum, who happened to former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the “most violent” in the history of Mexico with 41 candidates killed.
With EFE information
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