Find the "backyard" ugly, how does it look up front, any gringan governmental human rights watchdog? What do they say about Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, the Rendition Program, any moderating effect on the Patriot Act? I honestly don't know of a US counterpart to the CNDH. I have my doubts on how effective such entities actually are, but will give them the benefit of the doubt, they must do some good, help moderate governmental excesses a bit.
The CNDH monitors and has secured indictments, warrants and prosecution and convicition of dozens of functionaries for miscarriage of justice relating to the ongoing tragic slayings of women in Juarez, they've secured a citizen right to access public records, they monitor the penal justice system, are actively bringing to justice those involved in the Tlatelolco slaughter, the "disappeared", the Colosio assasination, monitoring adequate procedural safeguards of numerous wrongfully accused and destitute Mexicans denied access to counsel on death row across the border. What is the US equivalent, do they do that much better? How much ineffectiveness can we shrug off as merely the effects of inbred corruption?
Creel discretely demands an apology: Quote:
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Mexican Secretary of the Interior (Gobernación), Santiago Greel revealed yesterday that in his meeting March 23rd with Michael Chertoff, he will raise the issue over the offensive language in recent statements by CIA Director Porter Goss in his “backyard” slur. http://estadis.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/273799.html |