Mexico City, (EFE) .- The Senate approved, in general and in particular with changes, the draft decree issued by the Law of the National Guard, Public Security Force, and eight regulations are modified to harmonize them with the constitutional reform in this matter endorsed in 2024.
The approval in general was obtained with 75 votes in favor and 34 against; While, in particular, it was with 75 in favor and 32 against, so the document was turned to the Federal Executive.
It was the fourteenth issue that the Chamber addressed as part of the agenda of the extraordinary period, which began on June 23, and that on this date coincides with the sixth anniversary of the creation of the National Guard.
The project includes reforms to various provisions of the organic laws of the Federal Public Administration; Mexican Organic Army and Air Force; of Military Education of the Mexican Army and Air Force; and of Mexican Army and Air Force rewards and Air Force.
In addition, modifications to the laws of the Social Security Institute for the Mexican Armed Forces; of Mexican Army and Air Force discipline; to the Code of Military Justice; and to the Military Code of Criminal Procedures.
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The draft decree derives from a minute sent by the Chamber of Deputies to the Senate, on June 25, after one day before the deputies approved the new Law of the National Guard (GN), Public Security Force, permanently and composed of military personnel with police training dependent on the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).
The reform, they have said organizations, formalizes the assignment of the GN to the defense and its operation as an armed force, and in case of crimes, may have contact with the evidence before the Public Ministry.
The performance of the armed forces in public security tasks have caused controversy in Mexico for facing accusations of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and disproportionate use of force.
In the positions, Senator Enrique Vargas, of the PAN, considered that the reform “is not the solution for the insecurity crisis, since there are no police in more than 700 municipalities” and proposed to develop another strategy.
While by the PRI, Senator Guadalupe Toledo recalled that international organizations have not agreed with the “improper use” of the army, nor in having a GN without audits or democratic controls.
In his turn, Clemente Castañeda, of MC, accused that with this reform it is renounced by civil command, the discretion actions of the GN are increased and accountability mechanisms are not incorporated.
This Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed the role of the GN, an organization created by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador six years ago, as a pillar for national security.
He pointed out that thanks to the strengthening of the GN, which already has 13,000 agents, in Mexico the malicious homicides during the last nine months have been reduced.
During the AMLO government, controversy in Mexico grew for militarization policies. The president, who promised to return the soldiers to the barracks, justified the use of the military in security tasks to face the crime.
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