Mexico’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 students has been marred by torture, refuted by journalists and roundly rejected by forensic experts. Yet, even after the office of Mexico's federal attorney general acknowledged last week that security forces tortured at least one key witness before he supposedly confessed to killing the students, the government’s mishandling of the country’s highest-profile human rights case has yet to provoke even a mild scolding from the U.S. Don’t expect one any time soon. President Barack Obama’s administration has repeatedly expressed concern about the general human rights climate in Mexico, but the U.S....
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