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 CIS NO: 94-H721-37
 TITLE: Human Rights in Mexico: Implications for NAFTA and U.S. Business.
 SOURCE: Committee on Small Business. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+194 p.
 DATE: June 29, Sept. 30, 1993
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 103-1             SUDOC: Y4.SM1:103-29
 ITEM NO: 1031-A; 1031-B
 MC ENTRY NO: 94-20949

 Committee Serial No. 103-29. Hearings to examine human rights conditions in
 Mexico in light of Congressional consideration of the North American Free
 Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
   Supplementary material (p. 62-194) includes witnesses' written
 statements, a witness's written replies to Committee questions, and:
 -- Department of State, "Mexico" excerpt from Country Reports on Human
     Rights for 1992, Feb. 1993 (p. 64-76).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Mexico human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): MEXICO (Human rights
     conditions, review); HUMAN RIGHTS; NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE
     AGREEMENT; DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE
 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L.103-182

 94-H721-37 TESTIMONY NO: 1         June 29, 1993 p. 6-33, 77-152
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SALINAS, CARLOS M. (Government Program Officer, Latin America and the
        Caribbean, D.C. Office, Amnesty International, U.S.A)
     LIVAS, JAVIER (Mexican political activist)
     MENDEZ, JUAN E. (Executive Director, Americas Watch)
     ARRIGUNAGA, JUAN MANUEL (Deputy Director, Mexico Family Civic
        Coalition)
     ROSENTHAL, ERIC (Legal Fellow, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Inadequacy of recent Mexican Government legal
     and institutional reforms to improve human rights; perspectives on
     Government efforts to restrict political rights at the national and
     local level in Mexico; review of human and political rights violations
     in Mexico and related Mexican Government reform measures; description of
     human rights abuses by the Mexican army in rural areas.
 INSERTION: 
     -- Amnesty International, "Mexico: The Persistence of Torture and
        Impunity" June 1993 (p. 89-117).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Mexico human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/AMERICAS;
     FOREIGN.LAWS; CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS; RURAL CONDITIONS; TORTURE
     ("Mexico: The Persistence of Torture and Impunity"); AMNESTY
     INTERNATIONAL, U.S.A.; MEXICO FAMILY CIVIC COALITION; MINNESOTA
     ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

 94-H721-37 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Sept. 30, 1993 p. 41-55, 175-187
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     ELY-RAPHEL, NANCY (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
        Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Assessment of human rights conditions in Mexico;
     elaboration on Mexican human rights issues.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Mexico human rights conditions, review

 94-H721-37 TESTIMONY NO: 3         Sept. 30, 1993 p. 56-61, 188-194
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     ROMO CEDANO, PABLO (Rev.) (Executive Secretary, Center for Human
        Rights, Fray Bartolome de las Casas)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Perspectives on human rights conditions in the
     southern Mexican State of Chiapas.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Mexico human rights conditions, review
 DESCRIPTORS: CHIAPAS, MEXICO