- Page 2
- Page 1 of 9
Uniform Impunity
Mexico's Misuse of Military Justice to Prosecute Abuses in Counternarcotics and Public Security Operations
Glossary
I. Executive Summary
Note on Methodology
Recommendations
To President Calderón
To the Federal Attorney General
II. Mexico’s Laws on Military
Justice
Overview of the Military Justice
System
Applicability of Military
Jurisdiction
Structural Deficiencies
The Military as Judge in Its Own
Cause
Lack of Security of Tenure
Limited Civilian Oversight
Limited Transparency
III. A Pattern of Impunity
Enforced Disappearances during the
“Dirty War”
The
“Disappearance” of Rosendo Radilla
The Conflict in Chiapas
The Detention, Torture, and Rape of
the González Pérez Sisters
Militarization of Guerrero
Illegal Detention and Torture of
Environmentalist Peasants
The Rape of Inés Fernandez
Ortega
The Rape of Valentina Rosendo
Cantú
IV. An Ongoing Practice
Recent Abuses during
Counternarcotics and Public Security Operations
Illegal Detention and
Abuse of 36 Civilians and Rape of Four Girls
Illegal Detention of Eight Civilians
and Torture of Four, including a Child
Killing of Two Women and Three
Children and Wounding of Three Others
Illegal Detention and Torture of
José Fausto Galvez Munguía
Illegal Detention and Torture of
Oscar Cornejo Tello
Torture and Death of Fausto Ernesto
Murillo Flores
Illegal Detention and Torture of
Jesús Picazo Gómez
Illegal Detention and Torture of
Antonio Paniagua
Death of Victor Alfonso de la Paz
Ortega and Wounding of Juan Carlos Peñaloza García
Killing of Sergio Meza Varela and
Wounding of José Antonio Barbosa Ramírez
Killing of Four Civilians and Abuse
and Arbitrary Detention of Four Others
V. The Exception that Proves the
Rule: The Castaños Case
The Abuses
The Investigations
The Consensus
The Lessons of Castaños
VI. Mexico's Obligations Under
International Law..
Obligation to Investigate Abuses
Obligation to Inform
International Standards on Judicial
Independence and Impartiality
International Standards on Military
Jurisdiction
International Decisions on
Mexico’s Military Justice System
Acknowledgments
- Page 2
- Page 1 of 9
