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When the Bush Administration and the U.S. Congress contemplated a dramatic expansion in counternarcotics aid to Mexico, also known as the Merida Initiative or Plan Mexico, the LAWG and partner U.S. organizations joined with Mexican human rights organizations to raise concerns and recommendations aimed at pushing the package away from support for Mexico's military, a force that has been linked to serious and ongoing human rights abuses, and towards measures that safeguard human rights, strengthen civilian institutions, and curb domestic drug demand.

 

In July former Congresswoman Solis, with ninety-three of her bipartisan colleagues, sent a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon asking him to step up investigations into the murders and disappearances of over 400 women and girls.