Human rights violation
Although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended his corporation “through thick and thin” and has assured that he has no accusations of human rights violations, it is the seventh institution with the most complaints in the National Human Rights Violations Alert System. in 2022.
So far this year, 276 complaints have been filed for exercising disproportionate violence in detention, intimidation, arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, among others.
One of the most controversial moments of the National Guard occurred with the murder of Ángel Yael, a university student from Guanajuato.
On April 27, one of the members of the corporation fired at a truck in which the young man was traveling, who lost his life.
Meeting with suspected criminals
The National Guard has not been exempt from controversy due to alleged meetings with members of organized crime.
The corporation was not yet a year old when a photograph was released showing members of the National Guard with members of the Valencia Ávila family, who are related to fuel theft and drug trafficking in Puebla.
Go to Sedena
As of this Saturday, the National Guard will depend administratively and operationally on the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), according to the decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).
“Decree amending, adding and repealing various provisions of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration; of the National Guard Law; of the Organic Law of the Mexican Army and Air Force, and of the Law of Promotions and Rewards of the Mexican Army and Air Force, in Matters of National Guard and Public Security”, indicates the document.
Hours earlier, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed General Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), as head of the National Guard operation.
“Here is with me Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, the General Secretary of Defense, and he is in charge of the operation of the National Guard,” he said during an event in Durango on Friday.
