Significance: The speed with which the interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, came out to announce the probe, in response to a report published on 19 April in the local magazine, Proceso, shows just how much pressure the federal government is feeling over alleged abuses committed by the security forces. The government’s handling of the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 trainee students from Iguala, Guerrero state, last September received most attention, with widespread criticism at home and abroad. But there are numerous other examples. In the last four days alone three state police officers have gone on trial in the Mexican state of Baja California for torture, and deputies from the Distrito Federal (DF) have released a report into allegations of army involvement in the massacre of 22 alleged criminals in the municipality of Tlatlaya in the Estado de México in June 2014, which accuses the relevant authorities of being uncooperative with their investigations.
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