UN: Mexico among leaders of human rights violations.
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http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2008/03/15/209411/
The special narrator of the United Nations, Jorge Bustamante, affirmed that for now there is not "any possibility that Mexico will achieve a migratory agreement with the United Sates" because that is an internal matter and because there is not one proposed on the matter in the Congress.
Mexico, DF.- Mexico "competes with the leaders of the world in violations of the human rights of migrants", maintained today in Mexico City, the special narrator of the United Nations on rights of the migrant, the Mexican Jorge Bustamante.
Upon finalizing an official visit to Mexico in Tapachula, at the border with Guatemala, in the south of Mexico, in Tijuana, and in Mexico City, Bustamante criticized harshly some vices, but praised to the authorities of the southeastern state of Chiapas for their attention to migrants.
Nevertheless, he said that in Tapachula it has been known that abductions of migrants take place by Mexican federal police officers to extort them, according to testimonies that listened of migrant central american.
Bustamante related that an illegal Salvadorian migrant told him that he had been abducted by federal police officers for 11 days, that his family in El Salvador was extorted to pay for his freedom, but that his wife still remained kidnapped along with him at the beginning of March.
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