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criminal responsibility on the part of the perpetrators of violations, as well as of civil,
administrative or disciplinary responsibility, which matters impunity in our country:

Mexico ranks 58 out of 193 member states of the United Nations on impunity. However, it

ranks second to last in 59 countries that have sufficient statistical information to calculate

the Global Impunity Index.

Mexico has two priority dimensions that it must address: the functionality of its security
system and the structure of its justice system.

The problem of impunity in Mexico is functional and structural; It was not born in this

administration, but urgent measures are needed to reduce the high levels we observe.

Therefore, Huguette Labelle (2013), President of Transparency International, warns about

the need to:

[...] arrest those who commit acts of corruption with impunity. The legal gaps and the lack of
political will of the governments facilitate corruption both internally and transnationally, and

demand to redouble our efforts to fight the impunity of the corrupt.

In the case of the cultural dimension, the culture of legality must be considered, understood

as the personal conviction that the law must be the regulator of social life and that, therefore,
it must be respected and respected (for more details see, Pettit, 1999). In the words of a

recognized jurist, the knowledge that a people has of their right, as well as the efforts made by

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