The Obama presidency, let us remember, never considered the probable crimes against humanity committed during Calderón’s government reported by 23,000 Mexican citizens—from activists, academics, artists, and judges, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague—as worrisome.67 It was only until October 2015, a year after the disappearance of the forty-three normalistas from Ayotzinapa, that Obama penalized the Mexican government by withdrawing 15 percent of the annual funds provided for the Mérida Initiative. In total, Mexico lost five million of the 148 million dollars allocated for that
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