It’s good to see someone in the senate will stand for human rights every once in a while:
The State Department intended to send the favorable report on Mexico’s human rights record to Congress in advance of President Obama’s visit to Guadalajara for a summit of North American leaders this weekend, U.S. officials familiar with the report said.
That plan was scrapped after aides to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee, told State Department officials that the findings contradicted reports of human rights violations in Mexico, including torture and forced disappearances, in connection with the drug war.
via Anti-Drug Aid Delayed as Leahy Blocks Positive Report on Mexico’s Rights Record – washingtonpost.com.
HT Radley Balko
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