Re: ACLU & Client, MxGov, To Sue Ice For Being Anti-Semetic

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> > "Don Gabacho" <jpast...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> Don Gabacho wrote:
> > >> > It appears the, now, Mexican Civil Liberties Union is wrong.
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> > >> Lie.  There is no Mexican Civil Liberties Union.
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> > > There is now. It was the ACLU.
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> > LIE.
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> > >> Lie.  The Mexican government is not a client of the ACLU.
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> > > The ACLU, now Mexican Civil Liberties Union, signed a "contract"
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> > > the Mexican Government to co-litigate and even prosecute Americans,
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> > LIE.
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> Of course.  The only question is whether Senor Gabacho KNOWS he's lying,
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> actually believes the nonsense he posts.
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> He comes across as stupid enough to believe it.

SENATE APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
Publication: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
Date: Wednesday, November 17 1999
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The Mexican Senate has voted to approve jurist Jose Luis Soberanes
Fernandez as the new director of the government- sponsored human
rights agency (Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos, CNDH).

Soberanes, former director of the Instituto de Investigaciones
Juridicas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM),
received nearly unanimous sup****t from the governing Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and the center-right Partido Accion
Nacional (PAN).

Most members of the center-left Partido de la Revolucion Democratica
(PRD) abstained from voting. Soberanes will take office immediately
and serve until 2004.

Senators bypass former director Mireille Roccatti By approving
Soberanes, the Senate removed President Ernesto Zedillo's appointee
Mireille Roccatti from the post.

In June of this year, Congress approved changes to the Constitution to
give the CNDH greater independence. A key change was to remove the
power of the executive branch to appoint the commission's director and
transfer this function to the Senate (see SourceMex, 1999-06-30).

The Senate had the option of reappointing Roccatti, who was one of
nine candidates under consideration. But some senators from the PRD
announced early on that they would oppose Roccatti because they were
not pleased with her job performance. PRD president Sen. Amalia Garcia
said Congress gave the CNDH a mandate to increase its independence
from the executive, but failed to do so under Roccatti's leader****p.

The Senate's appointment of Soberanes effectively ended Roccatti's
term more than a year ahead of schedule. Roccatti had been scheduled
to serve as CNDH director until January, 2001.

On the day Soberanes' appointment was approved, the Tijuana-based
Centro de Apoyo al Migrante (CAM) filed a formal complaint against
Roccatti for the CNDH's failure to act more forcefully in the face of
US restrictions against undo***ented immigrants. The US Border
Patrol's Operation Guardian, which tightened vigilance at traditional
crossing points in California, forced Mexican immigrants to cross into
the US in more remote and dangerous areas, which has resulted in
scores of deaths (see SourceMex, 1998-08-12, 1999-09-01)

In accepting the post, Soberanes pledged he would not "politicize" the
CNDH. "I will need the cooperation of everyone, from civil
organizations and political parties to the communications media and
the government," said Soberanes.

"As everyone knows, the CNDH has moral authority, but not physical
enforcement capabilities to perform its function."

Questions surround new appointee Soberanes' appointment has not been
without controversy.

Some PRD senators raised concerns about re****ts that Soberanes has
been affiliated with the ultraright Roman Catholic organization Opus
Dei. "I am not questioning his religious preferences, but the links to
Opus Dei," said PRD Sen. Mario Saucedo. "In Mexico, that organization
has been linked to the power structures on the political right."

Nongovernmental human rights organizations said they would take a
wait-
and-see stance on Soberanes. Alfredo Castillo, director of the Miguel
Agustin Pro Juarez human rights center, said his organization is
concerned because Soberanes' stance on individual rights is totally
unknown.

"He has strong academic credentials, but we do not know where he
really stands," said Castillo.

Castillo said the organization would have preferred that the Senate
select one of the other candidates who had taken more of an activist
role in promoting human rights, such as Guadalupe Morfin, Luis de la
Barreda Solorzano, or Miguel Sarre.

But the leader of another organization expressed doubt that the CNDH
could change much, regardless of which candidate gained the Senate
appointment. Rosario Ibarra, director of the Comite pro Defensa de
Presos, Perseguidos, Desaparecidos y Exiliados Politicos de Mexico,
questioned whether the commission could move away from its traditional
role of covering up the illicit activities of the government. "We have
no confidence that this role is going to end," Ibarra told the daily
newspaper El Universal.

One of Soberanes' first tasks will be to help coordinate a visit by
Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Robinson,
who will visit Mexico Nov. 23-28, will meet with Foreign Relations
Secretary Rosario Green and Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar and
will address the Mexican Congress.

Robinson is scheduled to visit Chiapas state on Nov. 27, where she
will hold separate meetings with controversial Gov. Roberto Albores
Guillen and retiring Roman Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz of the Diocese
of San Cristobal de las Casas.

The meeting with Bishop Ruiz will also involve indigenous women from
the town of Acteal, the site of a paramilitary massacre of sup****ters
of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) in December
1997 (see SourceMex, 1998-01-07).

Robinson's trip will include a stop in the Mexican border city of
Tijuana, where she will look into complaints of mistreatment of
Mexican emigrants to the US. (Sources: Notimex, 11/11/99; Excelsior,
11/01/99, 11/11/99, 11/13/99; Reforma, 11/04/99, 11/09/99, 11/10/99,
11/12/99, 11/13/99; Novedades, 10/20/99, 11/05/99 11/17/99; La
Jornada, 10/28/99, 11/09/99, 11/10/99, 11/17/99; El Universal,
11/04/99, 11/12/99, 11/17/99)