UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet speaks during a press conference in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 9 2019. Picture: AFP/RODRIGO ARANGUA
She told reporters at a news conference that stories of anguish she heard from the families of victims reminded her of the darkest days of the police state that Augusto Pinochet oversaw in Chile during the 1970s and 1980s.During the military dictatorship in Chile from 1973 to 1990, about 3,000 people were killed or disappeared and 28,000 others were victims of torture, including Bachelet and her father, an air force general.
“It was moving for me to meet with the families,” she said. “They have the same cries, the same calls for truth and justice.” Bachelet said the violence in Mexico had unique characteristics and that the country suffered from weak rule of law.