In 2015, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances released a report on Mexico, concluding that there is a generalized context of disappearances in the country, many of which would meet the legal definition of enforced disappearance. Despite the recurring pattern of mass disappearances throughout the country in the last decade, including the recent disappearance of forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico has not convicted a single person for an enforced disappear

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entitles Mexican tractor-trailers to enter the U.S. to deliver cargo from Mexico.  In spite of NAFTA, the U.S. has only allowed Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. during a controversial demonstration project that granted U.S. operating licenses to a select number of Mexican trucks during the Bush administration.  The dispute over NAFTA’s cross-border trucking provisions climaxed on March 16, 2009, when Mexico imposed $2.4 bil

Mexico and the United States exercise sovereignty that is increasingly transnational and less absolute with respect to migration.  This is evident in changes to Mexico’s norm of non-intervention and the United States’ plenary power doctrine, two doctrines rooted in international sovereignty.  Both have historically defined sovereign authority in absolute terms, avoiding any foreign influence or domestic limitation.  The non-intervention norm prohibits Mexican foreign relati