Security forces in Mexico are using torture and forced disappearances and other human right violations in order to fight back against the drug cartel in Mexico. There is evidence Mexican police and armed forces were involved in 170 cases of torture, 24 extrajudicial killings and 39 forced disappearances since the government launched a war on drug gangs in late 2006, the rights group said a Human Right Watch report. Since Felipe Calderon took over the office of the president in December 2006 he has been sending the Mexican armed forces to take on the drug cartels rather than allowing the police forces to handle it.

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