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Article: SENATE IGNORES PLEAS FOR CHANGE, SELECTS INSIDER RAUL PLASCENCIA TO LEAD HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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International organizations have consistently criticized Mexico for its inability to curb human rights abuses and protect its citizens' basic rights. Some criticism has been directed at the semi-independent Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH), which has been viewed as an ineffective paper tiger that talked the good talk but got very few results. So, with the term of CNDH president Jose Luis Soberanes ending this year, many saw an opportunity for the Senate to pick a new leader who would oversee an overhaul of the agency. Change would be more likely if an outsider was selected rather than a member of the establishment. This did not happen. After giving so much ...
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