▲ Some accusations are for disproportionate violence.Photo Alfredo Dominguez
Jessica Xanthomila
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 28, 2025, p. 5
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has issued 27 recommendations for serious violations of fundamental guarantees, mostly directed to the Secretariats of Security and Citizen Protection (12), National Defense (7) and Navy (6), according to a review of the 2025 documents published on the official website of the organization headed by Rosario Piedra Ibarra.
The complaints against these federal agencies have to do with cruel and inhuman and/or degrading treatment and torture; excessive use of force; illegal detention, sexual violence and deprivation of life. It should be noted that the majority are events perpetrated in years prior to 2024, several date back to 2012, but their investigation arose later, after the complaint filed by the injured parties.
In the case of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), many of its recommendations are related to attacks perpetrated by elements of the defunct Federal Police.
In 2024, the CNDH registered 30 mechanisms of this type for serious human rights violations. In that year the SSPC also topped the list, with nine; followed by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), seven; Navy, six; and the Secretariat of National Defense, with four.
In the review of the documents published in 2025 by the national commission, it is noted that another of the institutions to which recommendations were issued in the current year was the FGR (3), as well as the prosecutor’s offices of the state of Guanajuato, Guerrero and Tabasco, with one each.
The attacks that were credited to them also had to do with disproportionate violence and lack of judicial protection.
The entities where the majority of violations were committed were in Tabasco, Guerrero, the state of Mexico, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz and Sinaloa.
As for ordinary recommendations, as of November there were 144, according to the information disseminated in the National Human Rights Violation Alert System. The Mexican Institute of Social Security heads the list with 69 targeted mechanisms, followed by the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers, with 31; the Attorney General’s Office of Veracruz, 24; the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Reintegration of the SSPC, four; and the General Hospital of Mexico of the Ministry of Health, two.
The most reported violating acts have to do with irregular integration of files, omitting information about the state of health, medical negligence, not providing medical care, depriving of life, challenges for non-acceptance of recommendations and illegal retention.
