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AMLO, Petro, Maduro: LatAm leaders dismiss US Human Rights Report, calling it full of 'lies'

The report stated that there were credible accounts of unlawful or arbitrary killings, cases of disappearances, torture, and inhumane treatment carried out by police, military personnel, and other officials in the region (Credit: Unsplash.com/Mufid Majnun)

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, was one of the n Latin American leaders who rejected the findings of the U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic were others to do so.

AMLO was emphatic in rejecting the claims made on Mexico in the document, which analyzes the situation of human rights in over 200 countries and seeks to assess progress or setbacks in individual, political, civil, and labor rights.

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