Alito Moreno files UN complaint over alleged rights violations

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El Financiero reports that Alejandro “Alito” Moreno Cárdenas, national leader of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and a senator, said he submitted a complaint to the United Nations in New York concerning what he described as a serious situation in Mexico. Moreno said the document was addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and alleged systematic violations of rights and freedoms. His account was published on X, and the report attributed the allegations to him.

According to El Financiero, Moreno accused the Mexican government of failing to honor commitments under the UN Charter, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Palermo Convention. He said the complaint included allegations that lists of critics, journalists, media outlets, digital platforms, and citizens had been created or circulated by the government, as well as claims of censorship, political persecution, limits on information, mandatory biometric data for telephone registration, and a crisis of enforced disappearances. Moreno also alleged collusion between Morena-linked authorities and organized-crime cartels, while describing Mexico’s electoral institutions as captured; those are his allegations, not established findings in the report.

Moreno said the PRI would take its complaints to international bodies after what he called an effort to “subdue the country.” El Financiero also noted that he went to the U.S. State Department on August 10 to request a review of three National Electoral Institute officials under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, after an electoral commission ordered him to remove posts calling Morena a “narco-party.” He said he planned to raise that dispute with the UN, the Organization of American States, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.