Security Issues
- Call to Congress: Demilitarize the Merida
Initiative (April 2008)
A brief description of the Merida Initiative and policy suggestions for the U.S. Congress
Read more here
- Just the Facts: A
Civilian’s Guide to US Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America
and the Caribbean
A joint project with the Center for International Policy that includes detailed information on US military assistance to Mexico
www.ciponline.org/facts
- Sibling Rivalry? Mexico and the US
work to heal the wounds of a public feud
A discussion of the rift caused between the two nations over the Iraq war.
Sibling Rivalry
- Troubling Patterns: The
Mexican Military and the War on Drugs
A detailed look at how the Mexican military increasingly commits human rights violations in the name of the war on drugs.
Troubling Patterns
- Leahy Law Implementation
in Mexico
A memo discussing problems in the US Embassy in Mexico’s implementation of the law which prohibits military or police assistance to human rights abusers abroad.
Leahy Law
- Mexico’s Military in the
War on Drugs
Produced by the Washington Office on Latin America, a comprehensive look at how the Mexican military has become increasingly involved in the drug war
http://www.wola.org/publications/ddhr_mexico_brief.pdf
- Human Rights Watch’s report
on how the Mexican military justice system lets human rights abusers
go free.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/mexico/
- Guide to the Mexican police
Learn how the Mexican police operate under a structure vastly different from the US models.
Click here - Unfair Trials: Unsafe convictions
Amnesty International’s April 2003 report on the use of torture in Mexico
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR410132003?open&of=ENG-MEX
