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Torture Classes in Mexico

6:01 pm By Maegan La Mala · Latin America|mexico|society

1 Jul 2008

If you are training to be a police officer in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, you might just get a couple of classes in torture. Many are up in arms in Mexico as videos have surfaced showing officers learning how to torture subjects, using their own colleagues as guinea pigs (videos after the jump):

One of the videos, first obtained by the newspaper El Heraldo de Leon, shows police appearing to squirt water up a man’s nose – a technique once notorious among Mexican police. Then they dunk his head in a hole said to be full of excrement and rats. The man gasps for air and moans repeatedly.

In another video, an unidentified English-speaking trainer has an exhausted agent roll into his own vomit. Other officers then drag him through the mess.




What do you think?

Via / Miami Herald

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Erika

July 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 am

I can not believe this; indeed this footage was extremely disturbing. What stood out for me this most in this, was that it was un Americano who was teaching these individuals how to go about the torture. It is disturbing and truly dehumanizing what they are doing to theses guys. What is being done in order to control the training? And furthermore what give anyone the right to treat people like this?

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diana

July 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm

I was born in that city. Although I live in the US an have for 23 years it makes me sad to see how police are trained to treat people.

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