U.S. Mercenary Company Implicated in Mexican Torture Videos

Posted on: July 15th, 2008
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Two videos of a torture-training session with the police force of León, Guanajuato shocked the Mexican public last week and raised serious questions about human rights under the Calderon offensive against organized crime. For readers with strong stomachs, the videos can be found here.

The videos leaked by the local paper El Heraldo de León hit the media just one day after President Bush signed into law a $400 million aid package to support President Felipe Calderon’s war on drugs and organized crime.”*

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