Nestor Jimenez, Georgina Saldierna, Enrique Mendez, and Jessica Xantomila
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, September 2, 2022, p. 12
The initiative sent by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Chamber of Deputies, with which he proposes that the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) assume operational and administrative control of the National Guard (GN), will be discussed today in this body. legislature, in a session that is expected to last until the evening due to the reservations presented by the parliamentary groups.
Yesterday, after delivering the Government Report of the Federal Executive in the plenary session of San Lázaro, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, affirmed that as the proposal is drafted – which does not have the character of a preferential initiative – It is not turning the Constitution around
but it is intended to provide the GN with legal and administrative security with the tools defined in the Magna Carta itself.
The Tabasco endorsed that it is sought that it is not impregnated with corruption and don’t get lost trying
. He pointed out that any political party or citizen who sees signs of unconstitutionality may go to court.
He added that this security body it is one of the most consolidated projects of this administration: just look at the surveys that were published this week: the GN has 80 percent approval from Mexicans
.
Meanwhile, the leader of the deputies of Morena, Ignacio Mier Velazco, defended that the GN is a fabulous instrument of the Mexican State to fulfill its obligation
. He added that We cannot imagine the reconstruction tasks after the earthquakes without the Mexican Army, or the tasks in the face of floods.
.
He stressed at a press conference that it demolishes that of which the military is something harmful
. He argued that this conception is based on antecedents little lucky
in Latin America, due to the participation of the military that ruled with dictatorial regimes, but in Mexico it has not been like that
.
The opposition benches will meet before the session to homologate
his position, but If the modifications of secondary laws go in the same direction as what was intended in the constitutional, they will not have our consent. We are still in the study of them
said the PRD Luis Espinosa Cházaro. Citizen Movement announced that it will go against it and anticipated a counterproposal for September 22.
They ask to apply human rights standards
Organizations such as the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights and Amnesty International Mexico expressed their concern about this initiative, and called on legislators to analyze it in accordance with the highest human rights standards. .
AI reported that the National Human Rights Commission has issued 162 recommendations to the Army and the Secretary of the Navy for serious violations
to guarantees, and since the creation of the GN, the number of complaints has increased every year: 350 in 2020; 504 in 2021, and so far in 2022 they add 255
.
