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Agreed, but it still comes down to demanding more from law enforcement agencies in multiple jurisdictions. Contractors exist to implement the policies of their

Agreed, but it still comes down to demanding more from law enforcement agencies in multiple jurisdictions. Contractors exist to implement the policies of their clients. What agency holds the contract? Who manages the system? Which electeds approved the budget? Which electeds administered the program? Laying this at the feet of the contractor is not going far enough.

lazaroclapp 10y ago
Believe me, we are demanding, but it is not clear we will ever know any of that. We have been fighting for 2+ years to try to get to the bottom of a case in which 43 students were murdered, apparently by the army and the federal police, and that took an intervention by the O.A.S., pressure from the E.U. and forensic investigators from other countries in Latin America going into Mexico with the backing of their own governments. So far we are starting to get a picture, but not a clear one and none of the people implicated by journalists or international organizations has been punished so far, only those people the federal government has chosen to scapegoat. This is still great progress over the incident in 1968, where the culprits of another student massacre essentially died of old age before the government recognized fault. That's Mexico for you. Keep in mind we were a de facto party dictatorship up until 2000 and the governments after that have been exceedingly corrupt and violent. That's why I am saying that governments with a functioning rule of law shouldn't be selling spyware and arms to Mexico. Nothing above excuses the actions of the government, and be sure that activists will try all legal avenues and all protest avenues to get to the bottom of it. But if the people doing this are even remotely well connected, we won't get them, we will get 4 construction workers who will go on tv with clear torture signs to declare they did it (that was what happened with the killing of the 43 students, among other things).

lazaroclapp 10y ago

Believe me, we are demanding, but it is not clear we will ever know any of that. We have been fighting for 2+ years to try to get to the bottom of a case in which 43 students were murdered, apparently by the army and the federal police, and that took an intervention by the O.A.S., pressure from the E.U. and forensic investigators from other countries in Latin America going into Mexico with the backing of their own governments. So far we are starting to get a picture, but not a clear one and none of the people implicated by journalists or international organizations has been punished so far, only those people the federal government has chosen to scapegoat. This is still great progress over the incident in 1968, where the culprits of another student massacre essentially died of old age before the government recognized fault. That's Mexico for you. Keep in mind we were a de facto party dictatorship up until 2000 and the governments after that have been exceedingly corrupt and violent. That's why I am saying that governments with a functioning rule of law shouldn't be selling spyware and arms to Mexico. Nothing above excuses the actions of the government, and be sure that activists will try all legal avenues and all protest avenues to get to the bottom of it. But if the people doing this are even remotely well connected, we won't get them, we will get 4 construction workers who will go on tv with clear torture signs to declare they did it (that was what happened with the killing of the 43 students, among other things).