“Authentic genocide” against opponents of power between 1951 and 1965, says the CNDH

Jessica Xanthomilla

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, April 8, 2022, p. 8

In the period from 1951 to 1965, in Mexico there was a systematic repressive strategy and, furthermore, institutionally sheltered by the Mexican State, which normalized, covered up and hid, in total impunitymultiple human rights violations, asserted the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH).

Said transgressions were committed particularly against militant citizens or sympathizers of parties and organizations opposed to the political group in the government in power, he stated.

In a special report on the violation of the right to democracy of the people and the repression of the guarantees of meeting and association by the Mexican State (1951-1965), he referred that in those years, in which the PRI governed, according to the file of the General Miguel Henríquez has a record of 217 deaths, 211 wounded, between 395 and 595 disappeared and 3,416 arbitrarily detained, most of which occurred in demonstrations or in acts related to their political militancy.

An authentic genocide, highlighting the fact that it is an incomplete record, because in reality there were hundreds more who were tortured, illegally detained or subjected to harassment and surveillance by the authorities throughout the country, without further knowledge of what happened. your destinyhe underlined.

The investigation carried out by the team of the Special Office to Investigate Repression and Enforced Disappearances due to State Political Violence during the recent past allowed the documentation of 38 events that violated the human rights of the militants of the Federation of Mexican People’s Parties and other groups. political allies of the latter, such as the Morelos Agrarian Workers’ Party, exposed.

With these facts, he underlines, it is verified that the repressive apparatus Its purpose was to limit the civil rights of Mexicans and control the exercise of democracy, but also, in a second stage, to guarantee impunity, since the disappearance of evidence and files that allowed the identification of both crimes and of offenders.

The report includes a series of proposals, among them the integration of a national plan for the recovery of the memory and the historical truth of serious human rights violations due to political violence and making the necessary modifications for the incorporation of the criminal type of temporary enforced disappearance, for being this figure the most suitable to qualify the violating acts committed by the authorities during the period of the political violence of the State.