The Los Angeles Times has spotlighted the groundbreaking legal action spearheaded by the G37 Centre in U.S. courts to advance accountability for gross human rights violations in Mexico. The case, brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act, focuses on abuses in Nayarit—a context shaped, as in many parts of Mexico, by the entanglement of public power and criminal interests, where violent turf wars reveal fractured governance and deep territorial contestation. It speaks to