Publisher's Synopsis
The International Community should be advised that the Mexican government is currently in dispute. Due to President López Obrador's bad governance, the Mexican government is currently like a lost puppy, which needs protection and safeguarding by the NGO community. As things stand, President Lopez Obrador is failing to deliver on pledges to counteract political corruption, reduce violence, combat deeply entrenched organized crime and impunity. This includes preventing violence and killings against Mexican journalists. Mexico has become one of the world's deadliest countries for members of the press; with over 145 journalists having been killed between 2000-2021. Especially journalists who cover sensitive subjects such as crime, politics and the security forces are at risk of being killed and assassinated in Mexico - such as Lourdes Maldonado, who was shot in Tijuana on 23.1.2022, a week after another journalist was killed, and a third was fatally stabbed days earlier. Also, criminal networks with political protection are capable of killing anyone and making them disappear; such as rival criminals, inconvenient witnesses, drug addicts and politicians. Amid the drug-fueled violence that has racked Mexico in recent decades, tens of thousands of men, women and children have simply vanished. The official total is 73,000, but the true number of desaparecidos, the disappeared, is unknowable - because criminal organizations, drug cartels and corrupt politicians are now ruling the country. Regrettably President López Obrador and his government are powerless to bring these criminals to justice, as they lack the courage, conviction and integrity to stand up against these evildoers in Mexico - or so it seems. This includes the leaders of Mexico's drug cartels and corrupt Mexican officials colluding with them - such as the Sinaloa cartel, the Jalisco Cartel, the CJNG, the Templar Cartel, Las Viagras, La Unión Tepito and the Nueva Familia Michoacana - who can do whatever they like in Mexico, because the Mexican government is powerless against them. Hence the International Community is advised to keep a safe distance from the Mexican government, until it has agreed to improve itself - by restoring rule of law and the UDHR in the country, and bringing criminal organisations and corrupt government officials to justice. In the meantime domestic policy, foreign policy and human rights issues concerning Mexico will be handled by the NGO BTB-Global Peacebuilding.
