Arturo Garza, a 19-year-old engineering student and baseball aficionado, left home to visit his girlfriend on the night of Saturday 27 June. It was the last time his family would see him alive. The next day they looked for him all over Nuevo Laredo, a border town in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. They reported his disappearance to the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Missing or Abducted Persons, but it was not until 3 July that they learned of a shootout between the Mexican Army and a group of alleged criminals, in which 12 men died.
Americas: Organizations of the continent reiterate the need to strengthen the autonomy and independence of the IACHR
Amnesty International is one of 390 organizations that have signed a statement today expressing concern about the situation facing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the decision announced by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States not to renew the mandate of the Executive Secretary of the IACHR.