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Part II: Challenges and opportunities
diploma course coordinator for a report that displeased the
Prosecutor General of the Republic. Recently, two official forensic experts lost their jobs in Veracruz and are facing a
penal process for having certified that an indigenous woman
suffered torture and extrajudicial execution (the well-known
case of Ernestina Ascención), while the “ombudsman” and
the President declared that the victim had died of “gastritis”.
It is not isolated that some university activities are cancelled,
with the excuse of incurring defamation of the government.
One can only hope that with the emergence of an increased
number of independent medical personnel qualified to document torture, the government can no longer neglect this group
and will be forced to allow them to work on an equal level with
those employed by the government.
In this way, offering postgraduate level courses becomes
a pressure measure that should contribute to making the government allow independent and impartial reports for alleged
torture cases, instead of the documentation depending solely
on the perpetrators.
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