Last week we were supposed to post an analysis of a Mexican general who could be the next top commander in the Mexican Army. Due to circumstances that story won't be presented until we can find a suitable news peg.
Human rights organizations have lauded the Mexican senate for advancing military justice reforms this week to make crimes committed by soldiers against civilians prosecutable by civilian courts.
However, those very reforms were among those suggested last fall by Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa in anticipation of a far greater reform in national security law, which languishes in the legislative process.
Human rights organizations may wind up getting what they asked for. And so could Calderon.
On Rantburg's Sunday Morning Coffee Pot.