The government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is failing to tackle violence that has pushed homicide rates to record highs and turned the country into a "butcher's shop,"
Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
Mexico has been racked by violence for years as successive governments battled brutal drug cartels, often by taking out their leaders.
Lopez Obrador won office in 2018 vowing to adopt a more conciliatory security strategy focused on the root causes of crime, in particular by reducing poverty and corruption.