This article by Arturo Sánchez and Alonso Urrutia originally appeared in the October 27, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. Amnesty International “is co-opted” and against the government of Mexico, charged President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who stated that the organization intends to organize events in the country after “the work” of her administration on the disappearance of persons “was recognized” at the United Nations (UN).
Asked at her morning press conference in the National Palace about the stance of the UN General Assembly, where no member state pushed for actions against Mexico following the report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), the president recalled that the government rejected that document because it attributed to the State enforced disappearances that, she maintained, “occurred during the dirty war.”
Today we have problems of disappearance, mainly linked to organized crime or crimes, and the victims and their families are being attended to. So, that view seemed very biased to us.
President Claudia Sheinbaum
She highlighted that the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the Undersecretariat of Human Rights of the Secretariat of Governance (SG) presented to the UN last week the legal reforms that were approved and the location of more than 16,000 people.
According to Sheinbaum Pardo, Amnesty International seeks to hold other events in Mexico because “they saw that the work we are doing was recognized,” which is why the SG held a press conference yesterday.
She announced that starting this Wednesday, the meetings of the SG, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, the National Search Commission, the Executive Commission for Victim Assistance and the state governments with collectives of searching mothers will resume, in what she described as “a permanent dialogue.”
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