“The security that has to do with the National Guard passes, completely, it already passes to the Secretary of Defense, and the operational issue is in charge of the Secretary of Defense, but I am going to issue an agreement so that the Guard completely Nacional depends on the Secretary of Defense and we only expect the result of the reform, but I already want the Secretary of Defense to take charge,” he explained.
Although in law, the National Guard is a civil institution, in fact, its conformation is of a military order. Civil society organizations have warned that the 80% of its more than 100,000 members are part of the Armed Forces because their places and their salaries come from the National Defense.
The restructuring of the SSPyPC would also include changing its name. “Yes, I am thinking that it be the Ministry of Public Security and Justice because I have been supporting me and they have worked, but I want something special, the Government has helped me, but I am going to ask Rosa Icela Rodríguez to Apart from your task of coordinating security, see these justice cases,” he said.
With that new name and restructuring, it would be the task of the Secretary of Security to attend to justice cases.
“I am going to send the agreement to the dependencies this week and I am going to restructure the Ministry of Public Security and I am going to include this special function in the Ministry of Public Security because I have been issuing pardons, amnesties, giving instructions on freedom and We are not moving forward and of course it is not just a matter for the Executive, but in a time of transformation one cannot act with bureaucratic tortuguism, least of all when it comes to justice.
