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A social media post shared by President López Obrador was enough to create controversy
Charles Ferdinand Latrille wrote to the French War Minister, claiming that “we have a race, organization, discipline, and elevation of feelings superior to Mexicans”
The gangs have engulfed the state of Guerrero in a war to control poppy fields, turning inaccessible mountain valleys of endemic poverty into Mexico's bloodiest spots
Since inaugurating its Special Unit on the Investigation of Torture, the PGR has reported 4,526 cases and the arrest of only five soldiers of the Mexican Army and members of the Federal Police.
The National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data, or INAI, said it had requested information from the periods 2000 to 2006 and September 2012 to November 2015.
The statement by Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos comes after soldiers have been implicated in rights abuses.
UN high commissioner for human rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said armies weren't designed for police work.
Salvador Cienfuegos, who is also Mexico's defense minister, told local television late on Monday that none of his troops took part in the attack on the trainee teachers in September last year.