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"Una
verdad en construcción"
By Kate Doyle
Proceso (Mexico)
June 12, 2006
"Impunity's
Triumph: The Failure of Mexico's Special Prosecutor"
By Kate Doyle
June 8, 2006
"Informe
Sobre 'La Guerra Sucia'"
By Kate Doyle
Reforma (Mexico)
March 12, 2006
"La
masacre desconocida en Guerrero"
By
Jacinto Rodríguez Munguía
Eme Equis (Mexico)
February 27, 2006
"Report
on Mexican 'Dirty War' Details Abuse by Military"
By Ginger Thompson
New York Times
February 27, 2006
"Report
links Mexican presidency to 'dirty war'"
By Julie Watson
Associated Press
February 27, 2006
"Draft
faults presidents in 'dirty war'"
By Hugh Dellios
Chicago Tribune
February 28, 2006
"New
Details of Mexico's 'Dirty War'"
By Héctor Tobar
Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2006
"Responsabilizan
a Estado y Ejército de la 'guerra sucia'"
By Jorge Alejandro Medellín
El Universal
February 28, 2006
"Revelan
en EU asesinatos de la guerra sucia en México"
Agence France-Presse via La Jornada
February 28, 2006
Related
links
The
National Security Archive's Mexico Project Page
The
Dawn of Mexico's Dirty War
Lucio
Cabañas and the Party of the Poor
The
Tlatelolco Massacre
New Declassified U.S. Documents on Mexico and the Events of 1968
"Forgetting
Is Not Justice"
Mexico Bares Its Secret Past
The
Corpus Christi Massacre
Mexico's attack
on its student movement, June 10, 1971
Reporting
on Terror
Human Rights and the Dirty War in
Mexico
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Update
- June 19, 2006
Open
Letter to the Fox administration from three authors of
the draft report (Alberto López Limón, José
Luis Moreno Borbolla and Agustín Evangelista Muñoz)
(in Spanish).
After
the National Security Archive posted the draft report of the
Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements of the
Past (Fiscalía Especial para Movimientos Sociales
y Políticos del Pasado - FEMOSPP) on its website,
the authors of the draft asked the archive to post this open
letter as well. The letter calls on the government to take
several steps in order to complete the Fiscalía's investigations.
The letter has been signed by 268 citizens expressing their
support for their demands. |
Washington,
D.C., February 26, 2006 - The National
Security Archive posts on its Web site today a work of history
in progress -- a draft of an unprecedented report by Mexico's
government on the nation's "dirty war" of the 1960s,
1970s and 1980s.
This document is the result of four years of work by the office
of Mexico's Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements
of the Past (Fiscalía Especial para Movimientos Sociales
y Políticos del Pasado - FEMOSPP), Dr. Ignacio Carrillo
Prieto. The office was created in 2002 by President Vicente Fox
to investigate human rights crimes.
The crimes detailed in the draft report were committed during
the administrations of Presidents Diaz Ordaz (1964-1970), Echeverría
(1970-1976) and López Portillo (1976-1982). In those years,
hundreds of Mexican citizens -- uncounted innocent civilians as
well as armed militants -- were murdered or "disappeared"
by military and security forces. Thousands more were tortured,
or illegally detained, or subjected to government harassment and
surveillance.
The report has not yet been made public, although its authors
-- a group of 27 researchers, historians and activists contracted
by the Special Prosecutor in 2004 to write it -- gave it to Dr.
Prieto on December 15. But this draft of the report is currently
circulating in Mexico. A reporter for a national magazine, Eme
Equis, has a copy, and today is publishing an in-depth
analysis of the section concerning state-sponsored counterinsurgency
operations in Guerrero during the 1970s. Others have the report
too, including the prominent writers and historians Elena Poniatowska,
Carlos Montemayor and Carlos Monsivais.
Since 2000, when Fox's election ushered in a political transition
after more than 70 years of one-party rule by the Institutional
Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institutional
- PRI), the Mexican government has acted forcefully in favor of
greater openness, transparency and accountability.
Although the Special Prosecutor's final report has not yet been
made public, the National Security Archive is posting this draft
version in the spirit of the public's right to information. As
soon as we obtain a copy of the final version we will post it
on this Web site.
Kate Doyle, Director of the Mexico Project of the National Security
Archive, made the following statement: "We are posting the
draft report because the families of the victims of the "dirty
war," and the Mexican public, have a right to know. These
same citizens may read in Eme Equis today about the violence
visited upon their own relatives by the Mexican government 30
years ago. But in Mexico they could not until now obtain the text
that contains the evidence of the state's responsibility.
"The fact that a version of the Special Prosecutor's final
report is circulating among a handful of prominent people -- yet
remains closed and inaccessible to those most affected by the
violence -- is a state of affairs reminiscent of Mexico's past,
when citizens were routinely shut out of civic participation by
a government determined to keep them in the dark. Information
was power, and the right to information did not exist for ordinary
Mexican men and women. The National Security Archive's commitment
to openness has prompted us to make this draft report available
to the public in Mexico and across the world."
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