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Security & Strategic Review - May 2024
MEXICO: Amnesty reform unlikely to solve Ayotzinapa problems
Mexico’s lower chamber of congress approved a reform to the Ley de Amnistía or Amnesty Law on 24 April. The reform gives the president power to grant amnesty to convicts who can provide information in cases of special interest to the Mexican State. Opposition politicians warn the reform is dangerous and concentrates too much power in the hands of the executive. However, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has argued the reform could help the government to solve one of the country’s most notorious cases: the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college in Guerrero state.
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