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Acknowledgements

This report was written by Tamara Taraciuk, Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellow at Human Rights Watch, and Daniel Wilkinson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Americas Division. It was edited by José Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division, Wilder Tayler, Human Rights Watch's legal and policy director, Joseph Saunders, deputy program director, Ian Gorvin, consultant to the Program Office, María McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, Colombia researcher, Marianne Mollmann, advocacy director of the Women's Rights Division, Michael Bochenek, deputy director of the Children's Rights Division, and Adam Abelson, Princeton in Latin America Research fellow with the Americas Division. Americas Division associates Jennifer Nagle, Danielle Wainer, and Joanna Edwards contributed to research logistics and production. Americas Division interns Joanna Klonsky, Vanessa James, Christian Wlaschütz, Helena Cárdenas, Eloise Fluet, Casey Paschoaloti, Sarah Wright, Sarah Fick, Maria Sarabia, Sara Milstein, Carmen Laura Martinez Lopez, Joshu Harris, and Maira Magro provided valuable research support.

Human Rights Watch would like to thank the numerous organizations, government officials, and individuals that contributed to this report. We are especially grateful for the critical insights and advice we received from Edgar Cortez and Michel Maza from the Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos "Todos los derechos para Todas y Todos," and Fabián Sánchez, Mario Solórzano, Sergio Mendez Silva and Maria Sirvent from the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humamos. We also received valuable input from Denise Dresser and Miguel Sarre from ITAM University, Sergio Aguayo from El Colegio de México, Andrés Rozental from COMEXI, Emilio Alvarez Icaza from the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City, Lucy Tacher from PRODERECHO, Ernesto Villanueva from LIMAC, Ana Luisa Ligouri from the MacArthur Foundation, Laurie Freeman from the Washington Office on Latin America, Benjamin Naimark-Rowse and Martin Schoenteich from Open Society Justice Initiative, as well as from Paulina Vega, Pilar Noriega, Guillermo Zepeda, Bernardo Leon, Jan Perlin, Susana Camacho, Mario Bronfman, and Mariclaire Acosta. Human Rights Watch takes full responsibility for any errors or omissions in this report.

We are deeply grateful to the numerous victims and relatives of victims of human rights abuses who shared information regarding their cases for us.

Finally, Human Rights Watch would like to thank the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Robert Field Bullock Foundation, and Denise Dresser (member of the board of the General Service Foundation) for their generous funding of our work in Mexico.