Andrea Becerril, Georgina Saldierna, Enrique Méndez and Fernando Camacho
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, p. 4
Yesterday, the Congress of the Union formulated the declaration of Constitutionality of the reform to article 19 of the Magna Carta, which expands the catalog of crimes with informal preventive detention, after 20 local legislatures endorsed it.
First in the Senate and then in the Chamber of Deputies, this constitutional reform was validated and sent to the Official Gazette of the Federationin order for it to be published and come into force.
The modification is so that extortion, the production and marketing of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, as well as smuggling and any activity related to false tax receipts, are considered serious crimes that merit informal preventive detention.
The local legislatures met promptly, since this reform was approved in the Senate around midnight last Wednesday and as of Thursday the state congresses met quickly, and since Saturday the required half plus one met, which was 17 A day before, on Monday, three others joined, bringing the total to 20 with which the Permanent Constituent process was declared concluded yesterday.
These are the local congresses of Mexico City, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Zacatecas. The last three were those of Baja California, Campeche and Yucatán.
The opinion of this reform highlights that it is necessary that crimes such as extortion or the production of fentanyl, which damage the economy and the health of Mexicans, do not go unpunished through the practice known as revolving door
in which criminals can carry out their trial in freedom and escape justice, which will be stopped by applying preventive detention.
And the same thing happens, it is emphasized, with those who manufacture and use invoices and other false tax receipts.
