Blog #4 Enforced disappearances in Mexico

Mexico is in deep trouble. Their security forces have participated in illegal enforced disappearances all over the country. The numbers are staggering. There are at least 250 illegal enforced disappearances of civilians in Mexico.  However Human Rights Watch thinks that there are more than 250 civilian disappearances because we will never know the full, exact number of civilian disappearances in Mexico because the government does not report all cases of enforced disappearances. Enforced disappearances are illegal. Most of the illegal enforced disappearances have been by the Mexican security forces such as the Navy and the police. The Mexican government is slow and belated in implementing changes to the laws in Mexico that would better protect civilians from illegal enforced disappearances.  Enforced disappearances of civilians are illegal because the security forces in Mexico often do it without a legal warrant. Those disappearances also cause families to worry needlessly about whether their kin is safe and healthy or dead or abused. Mexico has a long history of human rights violations. Enforced disappearances without logic or explanation are a violation of human rights. Those families have the right to know what is the reason for their kin to be stopped, taken away etc. but sadly Mexico does not have the same laws or protections that we Americans enjoy from the United States Constitution.  Human Rights Watch said that in short the security forces of Mexico may be involved in organized crime. Law enforcement officials are supposed to uphold the law.

Nathan Baker

4:02pm

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/20/mexico-crisis-enforced-disappearances