The Biden administration has leveled unusually tough criticism against Mexico, an ally, and Nicaragua, an adversary.
Countries in Latin America came under particularly harsh criticism in the U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights, with allies such as Mexico and adversaries including Nicaragua facing similar opprobrium.
It zeroed in on many of the widely denounced human rights abuses, including the killing of journalists, discrimination against LGBTQ people, targeted murders of women, and widespread violence fueled by drug traffickers, but largely ignored by the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The annual reports examine actions from the previous year.
Under the administration of former President Trump, however, Mexico largely got a free pass in the report as long as it cooperated with U.S. efforts to block migrants from crossing the southern border.Nicaragua, which has not been a U.S. ally for years, has seen a recent increase in the abuse of citizens’ rights under the government of President Daniel Ortega, including freedom of speech and dissent, the report said.
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