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MEXICO CITY, June 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's president said on Tuesday that he had asked Israel for a second time to extradite a former official accused of torture in the Latin American country. Zeron led the heavily criticized investigation into the disappearance of 43 student teachers in southwestern Mexico in 2014 under a government to which Lopez Obrador was opposed. "It can't be that Israel protects a torturer under any circumstance," Lopez Obrador said in a regular press conference. Lopez Obrador, who made a similar extradition request in September 2021, said he expected Mexico's Jewish community to support the effort to extradite Zeron. Reporting by Brendan O'Boyle in Mexico City Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Israel, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Benjamin Netanyahu, extraditing Tomas Zeron, Zeron, Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador's, Brendan O'Boyle, Matthew Lewis Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Thomson Locations: MEXICO, Mexico, Israel
An independent report in 2015 from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights also backed their position, concluding that there wasn’t evidence to support the incineration of the 43 missing students at the dump. The Ayotzinapa parents have fought with the Mexican government to uncover the involvement of the military in the case. She is an expert on human rights and social justice policy in Mexico and Latin America. “This is not just a militarization of public security, it’s a militarism of parts of Mexican civilian life,” she said. “If you’re looking at the chain of command in any of these human rights cases, who knew what and when becomes important.
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