by the El Reportero’s wire services
Six female Nobel Peace Prize winners urged the Mexican government to fulfill its commitment to investigate ‘’in an impartial and independent way’’ the Iguala case, it was known today.
In a statement released here, these international personalities said that it is ‘an important test of Mexico’s commitment to justice’, referring to the investigation on the disappearance of 43 teaching students of the rural school of Ayotzinapa, in Iguala, Guerrero state, on September 2014.
The investigations are conducted by the Attorney General’s Office and the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IMCI).
The document urges the Mexican government to reject any attempt to discredit the integrity or contributions of this group of experts, which has questioned some of the official conclusions about the case.
The letter was signed by American Jody Williams, (1977); Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala (1992); Shirin Ebadi, Iran (2003); Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland (1976); Tawakkul Karman, Yemen (2011), and Leymah Gbowee, Liberia (2011).
Honduran President advocates for constitutional reform
The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, showed himself in favor of a constitutional reform, a topic that stimulates today the debate in the country.
“The moment has come, to check the social contract of a serious, transparent way, highly participative, and also the whole constitutional documents,” the President stated to a local television station.
The President showed in his words the possibility to make out the possibility that in a nearby future, the Congress might check a draft and modifies the Constitution.
“If it is needed, it would be submitted to the consideration of the people in the next election,” he added.
On this matter, the coordinator of opponent political party Libertad y Refundacion, Manuel Zelaya, supported the idea of reforming the constitution, although it showed doubts about the intentions of the executive.
“What do they want to change?: What claims the Government? and: What is the intensity as for this change?, he asked.
Nevertheless, he thought that the ambience is propitious and stressed on the need for a new Constitution.
We stated it from 2009 and it was misunderstood, it was said that it was a treachery to the homeland, which it was not possible to be modified, and the fortitudes of all the sectors were irritated, remembered Zelaya, who promoted a non-binding consultation on the topic, and was overthrown.
Unstoppable wave of violence in Guerrero
Despite the deployment of thousands of federal security forces, the violence continues today in the Mexican state of Guerrero, where new casualties are reported.
At least 16 people were killed over the weekend in different municipalities of Guerrero, including 11 who participated in a party in Coyuca de Catalán.
A tourist was also killed in the middle of a shooting when traveling with her husband, who was injured, the governor Héctor Astudillo Flores declared.
The homicides rised to 158 so far this year in this territory of southwestern Mexico.
The archbishop of Acapulco, Carlos Garfias, said the military campaign to counter the insecurity and violence was a failure and that a comprehensive strategy to address the causes of the phenomenon is required.
At a press conference, he stressed that insecurity and violence represent a public health phenomenon and that it should be treated as such.
