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[|Mexico: Human Rights Watch Statement to the Human Rights Committee] The Human Rights committee has raised important issues for Mexico to address regarding the use of their armed forces while confronting organized crimes. Since President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of armed forces troops to help fight off the drug trafficking, there have been several reports of a dramatic increase in the abuse and some other human rights violations being committed by the armed forces.

[|Mexico] This is an article with a plethora of information about human rights violations in Mexico. It relates easily to the main theme and the topic because it provides information about human rights violations.

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[|U.S. punishes Mexico for human rights abuses] The US government is stepping up and enforcing the law in Mexico. They are using $26 million to try Mexican soldiers in civillian courts. The decision has come from growing murders and tortures in Mexico due to the drug cartels.

[|Human Rights and the Dirty War in Mexico] Researcher's have dug up newly-released archives of the dirty war. There is evidence that government agents have abducted, tortured, and murdered hundreds of Mexicans during the "sexenios". However US citizens know little of what is going on below the border.

[|Mexico-Human Rights Watch] Mexico's judicial system is still corrupt with human rights problems. People that get arrested or are in jail know they face punishment and tourture. The people that abuse the mexicans in jail often get away with their abuses. The judicial system doesn't try to prosecute them.