Mexico’s Homeless Are Targets of “Social Cleansing”

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico’s Homeless Are Targets of “Social Cleansing”
By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Nov 1 2012 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations in Mexico are presenting a complaint Friday Nov. 2 before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about government mistreatment and “social cleansing” of thousands of people living on the street in several of the country’s cities.

Among the cases cited by the plaintiffs are Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, on the U.S. border, where they allege that homeless people and panhandlers are being removed outside the city limits by the police.

The same practice, with variations, is occurring in the western city of Guadalajara, which has an urban planning programme designed to remove the homeless from the centre of the city, and in Mexico City itself, where they are being taken from the historic centre of the city and forced to live under bridges, viaducts or elevated highways, increasing their vulnerability.

Activists say the common denominator of all these actions is the violation of the rights of street people, a sector for which the outgoing Mexican government of conservative President Felipe Calderón lacks specific policies.

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[ocpagu]

1. Sick, really sick.

I can't stand these monsters targeting homeless people. Hope Mexicans will grow tired of these right-wing psychos as soon as possible.