Mexico: Information on an organization called "Porres", apparently a government-sponsored intelligence network on university campus with ties to death squads, 1981-1990
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 August 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | MEX6690 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Mexico: Information on an organization called "Porres", apparently a government-sponsored intelligence network on university campus with ties to death squads, 1981-1990, 1 August 1990, MEX6690, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aad390.html [accessed 18 October 2022] |
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The only reference to a group in Mexico under a similar name and definition found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC is in a 1986 Amnesty International document. The source, Amnesty International's Concerns in Mexico (London: Amnesty International, 1986), describes "Porros" as government-backed vigilantes reported to have arrested students and taken over school premises frequently after 1978. Immediately following this statement, the Amnesty International report indicates that 13 students and teachers disappeared between 1978 and 1982, but does not unequivocally attribute their disappearance to the "Porros". The same report states that "disappearances continued on a smaller scale during the De La Madrid period (1982-1988)".
Additional and/or corroborating information on the subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
