ABSTRACT
In the 2000 presidential election, one of Vicente Fox’s central campaign promises was the establishment of a truth commission that would investigate state involvement in Mexico’s "dirty wars". In 2002, Fox established the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements of the Past (FEMOSPP), but many Mexicans criticized the Office’s ineffectiveness and disparaged the shortcomings of the final report it published in November 2006. The eight-hundred-page Historical Report to Mexican Society acknowledged the government’s responsibility in police and army executions of over seven hundred people without trial since World War II. Three authors of the Historical Report, Alberto Lopez Limon, Jose Luis Moreno Borbolla, and Agustin Evangelista Munoz, wrote the letter reprinted in May 2006 when the Fox government hesitated to publish the report and appeared to be preparing to terminate further investigations by FEMOSPP.
