President Claudia Sheinbaum published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) the decree that makes the reform to the second paragraph of article 19 of the Constitutionand which translates as an effort by the federal government to abate impunity in high impact crimes.
In this way, the constitutional reform comes into force that adds to the catalog of crimes that merit informal preventive detentionto those illicit acts such as extortion, trafficking in synthetic drugs.
It also applies in cases of smuggling and any activity related to false tax receipts from companies known as “invoicing companies.”
The reform establishes that a judge will be the one who orders informal preventive detention in cases of extortion and crimes provided for in the applicable laws committed by the illegal introduction and diversion, production, preparation, disposal, acquisition, import, export, transportation, storage and distribution of chemical precursors and essential chemicals, fentanyl and derivatives.
On December 4 and with the endorsement of 20 state Congresses, the Chamber of Deputies declared the constitutionality of this reform.
The congresses of Baja California, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán, Zacatecas and of Mexico City were the first states to approve the initiative.
