latimes.com: "A group of human-rights activists and journalists says it will attempt to seek charges at the International Criminal Court against President Felipe Calderon, members of his cabinet and Mexico's most-wanted cartel leader for soaring deaths and widespread abuses in the country's drug war.
The legal scholars, journalists and academics who are preparing the case said Tuesday that the government's strategy against powerful organized crime groups routinely violates the rights of citizens and must be addressed in an international forum."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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