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Amnesty International says Mexico aid should not be “blank check”
It seems Rep. Tom Tancredo isn’t the only one worried about the Merida Initiative, a plan to give hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexico and other Latin American countries to fight drug trafficking and violence.
Amnesty International USA said this week that the plan must include “strict accountability mechanisms” to make sure that the U.S. is not “condoning human rights abuses.”
“Aid for Mexico must not be a blank check for Mexican security forces that have been implicated in crimes like rape and torture,” said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA. “If the authorization bill does not include strong human rights safeguards, the United States would be sending the wrong message to Mexican security forces at the beginning of this partnership, which could have grave consequences.”
Read the rest of the press release here.
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