Mexico: Pres-elect Amlo promises to create truth commissions for disappeared people

Last update: 18/07/2018

MEXICO CITY, July 18 (BERNAMA-NNN-TELESUR) -- Mexico's future secretary of the interior said the government of Pres-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will implement a national plan to repair relatives of victims and prevent further forced disappearances, as well as a new strategy to combat this national problem that has left tens of thousands missing.

"It's time to talk about memory and repair. We won't simulate a human rights policy and that there's nothing going on in Mexico. The State has been unable to prevent disappearances, of looking for the victims and finding out their whereabouts," said Olga Sanchez Cordero, the soon-to-be secretary of the interior.

In a forum called 'Oblivion, truth or justice', Sanchez Cordero pledged the future government will review the possibility of drug decriminalisation, repair victims and work on public policies aiming to recover and promote economic spaces and life projects as an alternative to the violent 'war on drugs.'

Speaking about drug decriminalisation, a controversial proposal that a great part of the conservative Mexican society opposes, Sanchez Cordero echoed the words of Lopez Obrador, who said he would do 'anything necessary to pacify the country.'

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