Thursday, March 10, 2005

An Unequal Relationship

U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body, an article in the New York Times, highlights the inequaity in the relationship between US and their Southern neighbors. The United States has withdrawn from the World Judicial Body after this organization ruled that 51 Mexicans on Death Row in the United States be granted new hearings. This according to US governmental sources is an affront on US Soveignity. However, the US has vast different standards in the reverse situation. The US has repeated intervened in the internal affairs -- including the judical system -- of Mexico for years.

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