Too many crimes, including torture, disappearances and killings, go uninvestigated in Mexico, which is suffering a “serious crisis of violence and impunity”, according to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR).

In a new report, the IACHR highlighted repeated failures to get to the bottom of some 27,000 disappearances registered in Mexico as of 2015, as well abuses of power by police and the armed forces in the fight against the country’s drug gangs.

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“Unfortunately, there’s a gap between what the law says and the reality. Somebody needs to take responsibility for changing the practices,” said IACHR commissioner James Cavallaro, adding the commission was shocked by the impunity it found in Mexico.
“It’s like there was no interest in looking for the perpetrators and solving the crimes,” he said.

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