President of Mexico recognized that the "War on Drugs" has brought a dramatic increase in violence and human rights affectations; therefore, The Government of Mexico has made a campaign of political reforms and established The National Human Rights Program. According to Amnesty International UK, Mexico’s Government since 2006 have been used the armed forces in the fight against organized crime, resulting in an estimated of 100,000 people dead and more than 22,000 missing. For this reason, Mexico must take a stand to face the problem, the armed forces must continue in this struggle, but should consider the fact that claims of violations of human rights by the armed forces will continue to rise if government does not take any action to control
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According to International Socialist Review, “The drug war is a killing machine. The level of violence and slaughter is similar to conventional warfare.” In other words, the damages are for the general population affecting in all aspects as the political climate, economic climate and social climate. Consequently, this problem affects directly to federal forces who have to face the observations of The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH). According to Human Rights Watch, “Mexican security forces have been implicated in repeated, serious human rights violations including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and torture in the course of efforts to combat organized …show more content…
For instance, problems like 43 college students who disappeared in 2014, and eight civilians were killed at Apatzingán, Michoacán in January 2015 after federal police broke up a demonstration involving citizen self-defense groups. Hence, these problems affect the image of the federal forces. However, it is necessary to employ federal forces rather than state police, local police in Mexico are not well prepared and overwhelm to face the organized crime, in order to take control, the armed forces should consider training in Human Rights and, strengthen its legal
According to International Socialist Review, “The drug war is a killing machine. The level of violence and slaughter is similar to conventional warfare.” In other words, the damages are for the general population affecting in all aspects as the political climate, economic climate and social climate. Consequently, this problem affects directly to federal forces who have to face the observations of The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH). According to Human Rights Watch, “Mexican security forces have been implicated in repeated, serious human rights violations including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and torture in the course of efforts to combat organized …show more content…
For instance, problems like 43 college students who disappeared in 2014, and eight civilians were killed at Apatzingán, Michoacán in January 2015 after federal police broke up a demonstration involving citizen self-defense groups. Hence, these problems affect the image of the federal forces. However, it is necessary to employ federal forces rather than state police, local police in Mexico are not well prepared and overwhelm to face the organized crime, in order to take control, the armed forces should consider training in Human Rights and, strengthen its legal