{"id":41348,"date":"2014-09-05T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41348"},"modified":"2014-09-05T09:41:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:41:57","slug":"mexicos-regime-of-torture-and-us-culpability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/05\/mexicos-regime-of-torture-and-us-culpability\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s Regime of Torture and US Culpability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140905Uprising\/2014_09_05_mexico.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Maureen Meyer <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140905Uprising\/2014_09_05_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/mexico_torture_report.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The shockingly commonplace use of torture techniques like water boarding, electric shock and rape among Mexican police and military is the subject of a new Amnesty International report issued yesterday titled, \u201cOut of Control: Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Mexico.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Among its most disturbing findings is the fact that while there has been a 600% increase in reported cases of torture over the last ten years, there have only been 7 torturers convicted in federal courts. <\/p>\n<p>Reports of torture rose most dramatically during the 2006 to 2012 Presidency of Felipe Calderon when the government made a concerted effort to battle drug cartels. Amnesty&#8217;s publication has found that such reports decreased slightly under current President Enrique Pena Nieto. <\/p>\n<p>Nieto had vowed to deal with a corrupt criminal justice system when he came into office. Earlier this year the Mexican Congress approved a Code of Military Justice to allow military cases to be tried in civilian courts and A National Code of Criminal Procedure was put in place which deems it illegal to obtain evidence through torture. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Maureen Meyer, is at the Washington Office on Latin America where she directs the Mexico Program, with a special focus on analyzing US-Mexico counter-drug policies and their relation to drug-related violence<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/AMR41\/020\/2014\/en\">Click here<\/a> to download Amnesty International&#8217;s report on Mexico, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wola.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mexico%27s%20Police_Many%20Reforms%2C%20Little%20Progress.pdf\">here<\/a> to download one of Maureen Meyer&#8217;s latest reports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shockingly commonplace use of torture techniques like water boarding, electric shock and rape among Mexican police and military is the subject of a new Amnesty International report issued yesterday titled, \u201cOut of Control: Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Mexico.\u201d Among its most disturbing findings is the fact that while there has been a 600% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41356,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348\/revisions\/41356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}