In a closed-door meeting of just over an hour with senators from all parliamentary groups, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turkexpressed his concern due to the situation of violence and insecurity in Mexicoespecially due to the high rate of impunity that exists.
The official of the UN listened to the positions of both the official legislators and the opposition regarding the forced disappearance.
The president of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), Ignacio Mier Velazcostated that it was “an open meeting, a frank dialogue, Mexico’s sensitivity was recognized to not hide in any way the issue of forced disappearance.”
He reported that he was given all the folders of the different reforms that the Congress of the Union“and that has extended to the federal entities, including the reform of the Judiciarythe strengthening of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic, in addition to all the other 26 legal reforms, both constitutional, to end this problem that hurts Mexican families.”
Regarding the report of the United Nations Committee on forced disappearance in Mexico, Mier Velazco indicated that it was clarified to the high commissioner that the concept of forced disappearance is arrest, detention, kidnapping or any other form of deprivation of liberty by state agentsby current people or groups, with the authorization, consent and consent of authorities, in this case the Mexican authorities. “And we flatly deny that this is a vocation or that it is a practice of the Mexican government.”
“We placed emphasis, on the part of the majority in the Senate, on the punctual interpretation and translation of the term ‘acquiescence’.
“That acquiescence is the possibility of someone facilitating things and that is not happening in Mexico, that is the first. And second, that it is not a systematic and generalized attitude where the Mexican State participates, I think that was clear and he was receptive,” he stressed.
He president of the Jucopo assured that on the part of the mexican government There is no acquiescence, because it is neither allowed, nor promoted, nor tolerated, nor encouraged, nor is consent given for this fact.
“This is due to a structural problem that has been going on for years, decades in Mexico, which was systematically denied, which can generate an interpretation of acquiescence on the part of the authorities. But in the specific case of the last nine years in Mexico, the Mexican government, the Mexican State, the powers of the Union have been working to end this scourge.”
The Morenoist legislator said that Türk’s response was that the person who prepared the report “is an independent body of experts, who did not have technical autonomy and who were going to review it.”
For his part, the Morena senator Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, president of the Foreign Relations Commission, highlighted that the high commissioner expressed his concern about the high levels of impunity, but the senators of the ruling bloc made him see that this has to do with the fact that “the Judiciary, for more than 20 years, defended the criminals and not the victims. Which has to do here with recognizing the pain of the victims of forced disappearances.”
For his part, the PAN coordinator in the Senate of the Republic, Ricardo Anaya Courteous, He celebrated that the voice of opinion had been heard by the United Nations High Commissioner, who “did not give an inch” and did not disqualify the Committee’s form.
“On the one hand, the ruling party basically denied that there is forced disappearance in Mexico and they repeated the arguments that you already know. The advantage is that he also listened to the opposition and we had the opportunity to tell him that we welcome the report of the UN committeethat we recognize the good work of that report and that the figures, which are hard numbers, although the stubborn Morena people do not want to admit it, are forceful.
“We told the high commissioner that it is true that the problem is not new. In the Calderón’s six-year term Eight people disappeared every day, only in that of Enrique Pena Nieto increased to 15 people per day. In the of Lopez Obrador increased to 25 people per day. And in this six-year term we reached a historical maximum of 34 people who disappear every day. A country where 34 people disappear every day is a country that has a brutal crisis regarding missing people,” he explained.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, and Senator Pablo Angulo Briceño. Photo: X @PabloAnguloB
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Anaya stated in a press conference that the high commissioner supported the committee.
“He said that it is a technical committee, a committee of experts, an independent committee; and he did not give an inch in disqualifying the committee’s conclusions.
“Second, he made a call in a very kind, very diplomatic, but also very clear way, for openness. And, obviously, that call is to the ruling party, because the opposition is open to the report. So, he made a call for openness, basically what he told them was: be open to listening to opinions about what is happening in the country.”
The PRI senator, Pablo Angulo, gave Volker Türk a letter in which he exposes “the enormous disappearance crisis that our country is experiencing, with more than 133 thousand missing people.”
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, and Senator Pablo Angulo Briceño. Photo: X @PabloAnguloB
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