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December 15, 2017

Mexican & U.S. Officials Meet to Discuss Military & Intelligence Cooperation
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Top Mexican officials met Thursday with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to discuss increasing
military and intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico in the
ongoing so-called war on drugs. The meeting came only one day after
Mexican Senate committees approved a highly controversial military bill
that human rights groups say will give the Mexican armed forces
excessive power. The United Nations, Amnesty International and human
rights groups all oppose the legislation, saying it will further empower
military forces that are already accused of widespread human rights
abuses, including complicity in the disappearance of 43 students in the
southern state of Guerrero.


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