Mexico: The shadow of impunity

Index Number: AMR 41/002/1999
Date Published: 9 March 1999
Categories: Americas, Mexico

This report examines the serious deterioration in the human rights situation in Mexico in the past five years. Instances of torture, extrajudicial executions, "disappearances" and arbitrary detentions are looked at in the context of widespead impunity and failure of the legal system to protect victims of violations.