Mexican state: far from meeting fully the decision of the IACHR in the case González and others (“campo algodonero”)

Abstract

Following the high number of registered murders of women in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, the academic community of our northern border has made a significant amount of research and analysis, all sustaining various scenarios, bearing the systematic reasoning that makes possible to understand this painful social phenomenon. For its part, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights conducted an important study, which led to a resolution, in which the Mexican government is ordered to produce certain provisions in order to compensate, as far as possible, the victims of this situation.

However, little research has been devoted to examining the behavior of Mexican institutions in the context of that operative paragraphs ordered in it by these agencies. That analysis must start from the understanding of the mandates of the Inter-American Court as the necessary solutions that society demands to put inits proper context to the victims and the perpetrators of these crimes. Hence the importance for States, in this case Mexico, to properly comply with the resolutions of international organizations, achieving international integration and harmonization of the fundamental rights that the individual needs to grow with dignity.

This exhibition seeks to determine, although in a primary way, the degree to which the Mexican State has complied with the mandates contained in the resolution of the Court on the “campo algodonero” case, document that binds the organs of the three powers of the Mexican State to the observance of certain measures to remedy the acts committed against a sector of society that has been considered vulnerable in terms of discrimination and violence: women. This analysis is conducted by reviewing documents and texts issued in this regard by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as the review of the available literature on the subject, and field visits.