{"id":13351,"date":"2012-10-18T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:49:51","slug":"torture-reports-triple-in-us-drug-war-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13351","title":{"rendered":"Torture Reports Triple in US Drug War in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mexico: Torture Reports Triple, Group Finds<\/strong><br \/>\nBy ELISABETH MALKIN &#8211; 11 October, 2012 &#8211; NYT<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International said Thursday that reports of torture and mistreatment by Mexico\u2019s federal police and military forces had tripled from 2008 to 2011, evidence of an \u201calarming increase\u201d in the use of torture by the authorities at every level of the drug war. Although the government has pledged to reduce torture, the report found that \u201cthe record of prevention, investigation and punishment has been extremely poor.\u201d Despite judicial reforms, Mexican courts still accept evidence and confessions obtained through torture, which the report said encourages its continued use. The United Nations Committee Against Torture is scheduled to study Mexico\u2019s compliance with international treaties next month.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/12\/world\/americas\/mexico-torture-reports-triple-group-finds.html?partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D13351&amp;text=Torture+Reports+Triple+in+US+Drug+War+in+Mexico&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico: Torture Reports Triple, Group Finds By ELISABETH MALKIN &#8211; 11 October, 2012 &#8211; NYT Amnesty International said Thursday that reports of torture and mistreatment by Mexico\u2019s federal police and military forces had tripled from 2008 to 2011, evidence of an \u201calarming increase\u201d in the use of torture by the authorities at every level of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13351#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1692],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}