U.S. government employees may travel to other parts of Sonora state in compliance with the above restrictions, including tourist areas in: Hermosillo, Bahia de Kino, and Puerto Penasco. There are no restrictions on travel for U.S. government employees in Mexico City. The law prohibits minors from working in a broad list of hazardous and unhealthy occupations. Victims relatives and civil society continued to criticize handling of the original investigation by the Attorney Generals Office, noting there had been no convictions related to the disappearances of the 43 students. In August 2020, the Lpez Obrador government recognized the committees jurisdiction to consider cases from Mexico, allowing families of victims to submit cases to the committee once they have exhausted their legal options domestically. Of the 500 legislators in the Chamber of Deputies, 250 were women, 1 percent more than after the 2018 elections. As of August there were no developments in the case regarding the abduction and killing of seven-year-old Fatima Aldrighetti Anton. Police, the military, and criminal groups are responsible for many disappearances. According to the NGO Freedom House, Researchers continued to document cases of journalists, human rights lawyers, activists, and political figures targeted with Pegasus spy software. It failed to provide police protection or access to justice, work, health care, and education for the over 71,000 asylum seekers, including many families with children, sent to Mexico under the Remain in Mexico policy. Yesterday. Emergency contraception was available, including for survivors of sexual assault. Factors associated with maternal deaths included parents with lower levels of education, poor hospital infrastructure and human capacity, and lack of access to maternity care, especially for pregnant women living in rural areas. Indeed, the Yucatan is one of the only states in Mexico with no transnational criminal organization or terrorist group. Outsourcing practices made it difficult for workers to identify their legally registered employer, thus limiting their ability to seek redress of labor grievances. Shooting incidents between criminal groupshave injured or killed bystanders. The reforms establish a four-year timeline for implementation designed to end May 1, 2023, but the government established an accelerated timeline to complete implementation by May 2022 and remained on track to meet that goal. Governmental Posture Towards International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Abuses of Human Rights, Section 6. Child protection authorities lacked sufficient capacity to shelter and process migrant children and families, and the government made modest headway to increase that capacity. Between January and August, the CNDH registered 26 complaints of torture and 123 for arbitrary detention. Law enforcement capacity is greater in the tri-city area of Tampico, Ciudad Madero, and Altamira, which has a lower rate of violent criminal activity compared to the rest of the state. The Federal Center and the new federal labor courts are designed to handle all matters related to collective bargaining agreements, but until the Federal Center establishes its offices in all the states, labor disputes in states without a Federal Center presence are to be handled by the CABs. There are no other restrictions on travel for U.S. government employees in Guanajuato state, which includes tourist areas in:San Miguel de Allende,Guanajuato City, andsurrounding areas. In November 2020 a judge suspended five officials from the Mexico City Prosecutor Generals Office for failing to search for Fatima within 72 hours after she went missing. U.S. government employees may not travel between cities after dark, may not hail taxis on the street, and must rely on dispatched vehicles, including app-based services like Uber, and regulated taxi stands. Be extra vigilant when visiting banks or ATMs. According to National Security Secretariat statistics, between January and June, state-level prosecutors and attorneys general opened 495 femicide investigations throughout the country, exceeding the 477 state-level femicide investigations opened in the first half of 2020 (statistics from state-level reports often conflated femicides with all killings of women). Mexico's defense secretary, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, has defended his government's tactics, calling the attacks a counteroffensive against growing government pressure, including the deployment of. The government increased the CNB budget 8 percent over the 2020 budget. - Around 35% of the borough's residents live in poverty. The CNDH reported indigenous women were among the most vulnerable groups in society. According to the Mexican Statistical Agency (INEGI) in Mexico there were a total of 36,773 homicides in 2020, according to the SESNSP there were a total of 34,555 murders that same year. This report summarizes key indicators that assess the status of the science and engineering (S&E) enterprise within the United States and that illustrate the U.S. global position in multiple aspects of the S&E enterprise. Justice in Mexico releases 2021 Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico Report October 22, 2021 10/22/21- (written by rramos)- Justice in Mexico has released the third edition of Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico, coordinated by Laura Y. Caldern, Kimberly Heinle, Rita E. Kuckertz, Octavio Rodrguez Ferreira, and David A. Shirk. See the Department of States Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/International-Parental-Child-Abduction/for-providers/legal-reports-and-data/reported-cases. The federal government created a National System for the Search of Missing Persons as required by law, but as of August it had not established the required National Forensic Data Bank. According to the NGO Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Catholic-majority communities sometimes discriminated, harassed, threatened, displaced, denied basic services, and destroyed the property of individuals who left Catholicism. Some public officials blocked critical journalists and media from following their social media accounts. The Mexican governments response remains deeply troubling mostly a hope the criminals will sort it out among themselves. There were numerous instances of criminal armed groups extorting, threatening, or kidnapping asylum seekers and other migrants. Detained migrants have said they were not given masks or soap and were denied medical treatment when they had symptoms of Covid-19. Mexican law enforcement and the military have struggled to curb crime-related violence. Minors were recruited or forced by cartels to traffic persons, drugs, or other goods across the border with the United States. From 2013 through 2020, the CNDH received 3,799 complaints. There were no government restrictions on academic freedom or cultural events. Not all public defenders were qualified, however, and often the state public defender system was understaffed. In 2019 a Mexico City court ordered academic Sergio Aguayo, a columnist of the daily newspaper Reforma, to pay a fine of 10 million pesos ($530,000) in moral damages to former Coahuila governor Humberto Moreira. Penalties were commensurate with other similar laws but were rarely enforced. In July the army provided reparations to two of the three families of persons killed in July 2020 by soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, during an encounter with suspected cartel members. Mexico Ends Warning System For Covid And Will Treat Virus As Endemic. The law provides for eight paid public holidays and one week of paid annual leave after completing one year of work. The armed forces operated a military justice system to hold human rights abusers accountable. Cancun is safe to visit right now. The National Guard is led by military officers, trained by the military, and composed largely of military troops. All states have additional laws against discrimination. U.S. citizens and LPRs have been victims of kidnapping. A report from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration found black migrants faced widespread racial discrimination from individuals and authorities, particularly in accessing employment and services. Women were more likely to experience discrimination in wages, working hours, and benefits. Institutionalized Children: Civil society groups expressed concern regarding abuse of children with mental and physical disabilities in orphanages, migrant centers, and care facilities. Violent crime is widespread. There are no other restrictions on travel for U.S government employees in Jalisco state which includes tourist areas in:Guadalajara Metropolitan Area,Puerto Vallarta (including neighboring Riviera Nayarit),Chapala, andAjijic. Government Human Rights Bodies: The CNDH is a semiautonomous federal agency created by the government and funded by the legislature to monitor and act on human rights abuses. There was a lack of comprehensive data on internally displaced persons (IDPs). The stories are sobering. The CNDH in its report on COVID-19 measures in holding facilities found most detention facilities could not comply with social distancing measures or several other health recommendations due to lack of space, personnel, or equipment. Amidst this systematic weakening of Mexicos institutions,the effort by Lpez Obrador and his Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero to gut and reverse Mexicos judicial reforms toward an accusatorial system andweaken judicial independenceare among the most detrimental. Responsibility for registration of unions and collective bargaining agreements, including amendments to their statutes, shifted to the Federal Conciliation and Labor Registration Center in November 2020 for the eight phase-one states. Torture is widely practiced to obtain confessions and extract information. Between 2017 and August the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes against Journalists, a unit in the Prosecutor Generals Office, charged 136 public servants for crimes against journalists. Thousands of people disappear every year in Mexico. However, authorities often fail to investigate allegations of torture. Reforms to the Prosecutor Generals Office split the Office for Combating Violence Against Women and the Trafficking in Persons offices in an effort to elevate these issues by giving each its own special prosecutor general. Following the August 2020 killing of Pablo Morrugares, El Diario de Iguala newspaper published a note blaming organized crime and Governor Hector Astudillo Flores administration for violence against journalists and impunity. Enrollment of children with disabilities decreased by 40 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Yo Tambien. Ramos had been searching for her missing husband for the previous seven months as a member of two search collectives. Prosecutors continue to use arraigo detention, a mechanism allowing them to obtain judicial authorization to detain anyone for up to 40 days without charge, for interrogation. A 2019 study by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the Mechanisms problems in coordinating protective measures, providing resources, and establishing clear procedures. Criminal organizations are based in and operating in Sinaloa. Schools were closed in Mexico from March 2020 to August 2021, and classes were broadcast on television and radio. In 2020 the STPS Federal Labor Inspectorate conducted almost 30,000 labor inspections nationwide but reported finding only one case of child labor. In these areas, local law enforcement has limited capacity to respond to incidents of crime. The National Program for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents, mandated by law, is responsible for coordinating the protection of childrens rights at all levels of government. The constitution provides indigenous persons the right to self-determination, autonomy, and education. As of September workers had reviewed and voted on 1,790 collective bargaining agreements, less than 1 percent of the total number of agreements. The government was reasonably effective in enforcing child labor laws in large and medium-sized companies, especially in the export-oriented factory (maquiladora) sector and other industries under federal jurisdiction. Workers, the employer, or an interested third party may request the CAB or court rule on the legality of the strike, which may find the strike is nonexistent and therefore illegal. Municipal police arrested eight women and one man, later releasing all detainees. From January through September 2021, the Mexico Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported 10 human rights defenders killed. The law requires the Secretariat of Health to promote the creation of long-term institutions for persons with disabilities in distress, and the Secretariat of Social Development must establish specialized institutions to care for, protect, and house poor, neglected, or marginalized persons with disabilities. 2022. to. With a judges consent, children may marry at younger ages. Three days later, a trans woman was murdered in the same. The law prohibits children younger than age 15 from working and allows those ages 15 to 17 to work no more than six daytime hours in nonhazardous conditions daily, and only with parental permission and permission from the labor authority. Asocio-economic component to enablelocal populations access to legal income is important, thoughnot a replacement for good policing. In June the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision confirming that the exercise of the right to strike suspends the processing of collective conflicts of an economic nature that may be pending before the court and the topics that they present, unless the workers express in writing their agreement to submit the conflict to the decision of the court. SANTA FE, N.M. - State lawmakers have less than three weeks to approve bills and send them to the governor's desk for a signature, that includes every single public safety proposal introduced . In Baja California Sur, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, and Yucatan, the crimes of defamation and libel are prosecuted, with penalties ranging from three days to five years in prison and fines for committing defamation or slander, both considered crimes against honor. Slander is punishable under the criminal laws of the states of Campeche, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Yucatan, and Zacatecas, with sentences ranging from three months to six years in prison and fines. In its data collection, the government often merged statistics on forcibly disappeared persons with missing persons not suspected of being victims of forced disappearance, making it difficult to compile accurate statistics on the extent of the problem. During the electoral process the INE received 147 complaints of gender-based political violence, a significant increase from the 47 complaints it received during the 2017-2018 electoral process. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and family members of disappeared persons alleged the prosecutors undercounted the actual number of cases. To receive government recognition, unions and their leaders must file for registration with the Federal Center. Sanchez was a reporter for Facebook-based Panorama Pacifico and was in the protection mechanism after suffering an attempt on his life in July 2020. There are no restrictions on travel for U.S. government employees in Mexico State. Transnational criminal organizations compete in the border area to establish narco-trafficking and human smuggling routes. Security experts said government candidate protection programs, which did not cover all those eligible, had a negligible impact on curbing political violence. Some civil society groups, however, asserted that state commissions were subservient to the state executive branch. An additional February reform mandated pretrial detention for femicides, sexual violence against minors, forced disappearances, and corruption. The CNDH may call on government authorities to impose administrative sanctions or pursue criminal charges against officials, but it is not authorized to impose penalties or legal sanctions. Bail is available for most crimes, except for those involving organized crime and a limited number of other offenses. His administration has given SEDENA and SEMAR responsibilities for custom collection and awarded them contracts for buildingairports,luxury apartments, and presumed critical infrastructure (sometimes foolishly environmentally-damaging infrastructure like theMayan Train), while promising toexempt them from all kinds of oversight. 2023. There were no reports of political prisoners or detainees. Investigations continued into the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in Iguala, Guerrero. The government made efforts to prevent, investigate, and punish acts of disappearance involving government agents. With Autocrats on the Defensive, Can Democrats Rise to the Occasion. In July unknown assailants abducted and killed Aranza Ramos in the state of Sonora. The plan is insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, according to the Climate Action Tracker. See state summaries and advisory levels below for information on your specific travel destination. From the United States 1-844-528-6611. The top destination was Cancn and the Mayan Riviera, which received 2.4 million people, according to Mexico's tourism office. Public buildings and facilities often did not comply with the law requiring access for persons with disabilities. Some areas of Mexico have increased risk of crime and kidnapping. Keep traveling companions and family back home informed of your travel plans. According to a 2017 INEGI survey, the most recent information available, 12 percent of women were illegally asked to take a pregnancy test as a prerequisite to being hired. Victims are often held incommunicado at military bases or illegal detention sites. Sometimes family members arranged marriages for girls younger than 18. The states of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas, plus Mexico City, accounted for 76 percent of reported disappearances from 2018 to June 30. According to advocacy groups, no information was available concerning the criteria through which the government chooses media outlets for public advertising. The National Population Council reported that in 2020 there were 373,661 pregnancies in women younger than age 19 (30 percent above 2019), of which 8,876 were in girls ages 14 or younger. U.S. citizens and LPRs have been victims of kidnapping. Between August 23 and August 27, hundreds of migrants from Haiti, Cuba, and Central America protested in front of the National Migration Institute offices in Tapachula, Chiapas, to demand expedited refugee proceedings that would allow them to move freely throughout the country. Travelers may also use Highways 1 and 8 to transit to and from the Mexicali Airport during daylight hours. Doctors and nurses regularly attempt to dissuade them from undergoing the procedure or refuse to perform it. At the federal level, the Secretariat of Social Development, Prosecutor Generals Office, and National System for Integral Family Development share responsibility for inspections to enforce child labor laws and to intervene in cases in which employers violate such laws. In April authorities arrested and prosecuted Alexis Rafael Valadez Vazquez under the new law for publishing intimate photographs of women online, without their consent, to extort them. Government authorities also reported an increase of 73 percent in online child pornography distribution during the pandemic. The reforms prevent the registration of collective bargaining agreements known as protection contracts, which nonrepresentative unions often negotiated and signed without the knowledge of workers and undermined genuine collective bargaining. There are no restrictions on travel for U.S. government employees in Morelos state. The midterms marked a large increase in female candidates. The National Guard, like SEMAR and SEDENA, lacks an investigative authority. And indeed, it doesnt respond. For the past two decades, criminal groups have violentlymeddled in Mexicos elections, particularly at the municipal and state level. Violence by organized criminal groups often prompted the incidents, which took place in 10 states and displaced 11,560 persons as of August. Freedom of expression advocacy groups reported the government, despite reductions in its advertising budgets, continued to have a strong financial impact and influence on the largest media companies. Human rights and environmental activists, many from indigenous communities, continued to be targets of violence. This includes information about the geographic distribution of S&E activities; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employment opportunities; geographic . Sexual Harassment: Federal law prohibits sexual harassment and provides for fines from 250 to 5,000 times the minimum daily wage, but the law was not effectively enforced. The Lpez Obrador government blames poor security on state authorities, and state authorities blame it on municipal ones. Recent Elections: International observers considered the midterm elections (legislative, gubernatorial, and local) to be generally free and fair, with only minor reports of irregularities. The government, in conjunction with international organizations, made efforts to promote the safe, voluntary return, resettlement, or local integration of IDPs. As of October the special unit had reissued arrest warrants for 11 of the 78 released detainees, including municipal police officers, but made no arrests. Yet, the 2022 outlook for both the rule of law and public safety in Mexico and meaningful U.S.-Mexico security cooperation remains bleak. Violent crime and gang activity occur in parts of Coahuila state. Media outlets reported authorities tortured and sexually abused Ravelo. Thus, they can act against crime and arrest people only when they see crime happeningin flagrancia. The government cooperated with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other humanitarian organizations in providing protection and assistance to refugees, returning refugees, or asylum seekers, as well as other persons of concern. As part of that process, the Federal Center published a new legitimization protocol to include a mechanism that allows for submission of complaints regarding alleged irregularities that may happen prior to, during, and after the vote. Gomez had advocated against illegal logging and the destruction of the Michoacan monarch butterfly habitat. The National Migration Institute, under the authority of the Interior Secretariat, is responsible for enforcing migration law. In September, the Supreme Court made three rulings that set important precedents for reproductive rights. Under past governments, charging the military with these tasks has contributed to serious cover-ups of human rights abuses. Organized criminal elements, including local and transnational gangs, and narcotics traffickers, were significant perpetrators of violent crimes and committed acts of homicide, torture, kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, bribery, intimidation, and other threats, resulting in high levels of violence and exploitation, particularly targeting vulnerable groups. January. A 2017 law made it illegal to use confessions obtained through torture as evidence at criminal trials. 11 hijackings per day. On January 14, community leaders went to the municipal headquarters of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero, to urge revocation of Protestant families local property rights for refusing to participate in the construction and servicing of the local Catholic church. Journalists in Iguala, Guerrero, received anonymous messages through social networks, such as Facebook and WhatsApp, threatening them and their families, according to civil society. Freedom of Expression for Members of the Press and Media, Including Online Media: Independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction but often self-censored due to fear of reprisal. Federal law prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention and provides for the right of any person to challenge the lawfulness of his or her arrest or detention in court; however, the government sometimes failed to observe these requirements. The Bicentennial Framework is unlikely to restore that. Hidalgo state Exercise Increased Caution. The army and the navy have human rights units to create protocols and training. The 911 hotline received 139,554 calls reporting incidents of violence against women from January to June, an increase of 6 percent over the same months in 2020. But what I heard from interlocutors in Mexico wasa most problematic vision of the U.S. Mexico Bicentennial Framework by the Mexican government namely, that the United States should only take care of its own territory by reducing drug demand and retail in the United States and the flows of drug money and weapons to Mexico, while Mexico will do whatever it wants, without U.S. input, in Mexico. While penalties for conviction of forced labor were commensurate with those for similar crimes, very few cases were successfully prosecuted. NGOs reported authorities had not implemented programs for community integration. As my fieldwork showed, in Baja California Sur, Baja California, and Sinaloa, criminal groups, often the Sinaloa Cartel, are muscling their way into new economies,systematically seeking to dominate both legal and illegal fishing, fish processing, and seafood sales along the entire vertical supply chain. Impunity and extremely low rates of prosecution remained a problem for all crimes, including human rights abuses and corruption. The Interior Secretariat registered 224 verbal and physical attacks against journalists in 2020 and a total of 1,052 between 2015 and 2020, 41 percent of which the secretariat attributed to public servants. Access to justice was limited. billy koumetio height in ft March 01 , 2023. MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico's president said Tuesday his country is more democratic than the United States . The new wage applied to all sectors and allowed an earner to reach or exceed the poverty line. There is no single independent oversight mechanism to review police actions, but many federal and state security and justice sector institutions have internal affairs units providing internal supervision and promoting best practices for transparency and accountability. Impromptu roadblocks requiring payment to pass are common. Queretaro state Exercise Increased Caution. Increased crime levels and reports of incidents lead the U.S. to review its guidance for travel to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Mexican laws do not adequately protect women and girls, including those with disabilities, against gender-based and sexual violence. Authorities held some detainees under house arrest. In addition to shelters, womens justice centers provided services including legal, psychological, and protective; however, the number of cases far surpassed institutional capacity. 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