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More than two thousand five hundred sociopolitical murders during the last six years in Colombia. Thousands of cases of systematic and unpunished torture in Mexico. More than one hundred thousand disappeared in each of these two countries. Colombia and Mexico break the dramatic record of human rights violations and crimes against humanity. RFI spoke to three advocates from both nations on the sidelines of Fidh’s centenary, celebrated in Paris.
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In both Mexico and Colombia, human rights defenders face the challenges of carrying out their work in narco-states that have been established in recent decades, based on the collusion between politics and criminal groups that control the illicit business. of drugs or who are linked to drug trafficking.
Radio France International (RFI) spoke with three of these lawyers who participated in Paris, between November 23 and 27, 2022, at the 41st congress of the International Federation for Human Rights, the Fidh that celebrated its hundred years of existence.
Guests: Reynaldo Villalba, Vice President for the Americas of the Fidh, human rights defense attorney of the José Alvear Restrepo Collective (CAJAR) in Colombia. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, director of the NGO for strategic litigation in human rights and specializing in disappearances IDHEAS and Adrián Ramírez, director of the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights (Limeddh)
