HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Killings, Disappearances, and Torture in ‘War on Drugs’

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SYNOPSIS/
Five years after President Felipe Calderón deployed the military to confront Mexico’s violent drug cartels, Human Rights Watch measures the impact of his strategy on human rights and public security. Based on in-depth research in five states and more than 200 interviews with victims, witnesses, and government officials, this report documents grave abuses committed by security forces in counter-narcotics efforts, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and torture. The report also examines the failure of both military and civilian prosecutors to investigate these serious crimes, and the detrimental effect of such impunity on public security efforts.

CREDITS/
Cinematography: Alba Mora
Researcher: Nik Steinberg
Editing: Jessie Graham and Madeleine Bair

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Human Rights Watch
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