However President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned he hopes his celebration can win a two-thirds majority in Congress within the June 2024 elections, and alter the Structure. For now, López Obrador mentioned he would instruct the Public Security Division — a civilian company — to nominate a retired basic to steer the quasi-military guard.
López Obrador says Military management of the Nationwide Guard is required to stop the power from changing into corrupt, as he claimed the now-dissolved Federal Police had grow to be.
About 80% of the Nationwide Guard’s 130,000 members are active-duty troopers on mortgage from the Military and Navy, the place they protect their ranks and advantages. Even civilian recruits are subjected to navy coaching.
Analysts say the usage of troopers on mortgage to the Guard is seemingly making a bookkeeping headache, as a result of they must hold some Guard officers on navy pay grades and advantages schedules, separate from different members.
López Obrador mentioned he’ll order Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez to go to the handfuls of Nationwide Guard headquarters all through Mexico to reassure the navy members of the power that they’ll hold their navy advantages and ranks.
López Obrador additionally lashed out on the eight of 11 Supreme Court docket justice who voted in opposition to his plan, saying they’d “acted as a part of a faction, not on judicial standards however on political ones.”
The president’s supporters say Mexico has to make use of navy personnel in civilian regulation enforcement as a result of Mexico’s drug cartels are so highly effective and nicely armed.
However the navy has been implicated in a collection of human rights abuses which are starting to taint the Nationwide Guard.
Within the norther border metropolis of Nuevo Laredo, Nationwide Guard members opened hearth on a civilian SUV over the weekend, killing a pregnant 15-year-old girlfriend and a 54-year-old man and wounding two different individuals. The Nationwide Guard has not responded to requests for touch upon the deaths.
The killings come practically two months after a military patrol shot to demise 5 males in cartel-dominated Nuevo Laredo on Feb. 26. 4 troopers have been charged in that case.
The Supreme Court docket dominated Tuesday that final yr’s switch of the Nationwide Guard from civilian to military control was unconstitutional as a result of López Obrador created it as a civilian power in a 2019 Constitutional reform and positioned it below the management of the civilian public safety ministry.
Final yr, López Obrador determined to alter that, however his ruling celebration and allies not had the required majority in Congress to move constitutional adjustments.
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