In May 2014 Amnesty International launched a global campaign to call for the eradication of
torture and other ill-treatment. Mexico was chosen as one of the five countries of focus in this
campaign, and after almost two years, the main concerns remain: Torture and ill-treatment is
a persistent human rights violation and is commonly used by state agents carrying out law
enforcement and security tasks to extract “confessions”, fabricate charges and inflict
suffering on citizens.