“In fact, they are only recruiting in Sedena and Semar. We have requests for information in which Sedena explicitly mentioned that he was recruiting soldiers for the Military Police to be later transferred to the National Guard. The same is true for Semar with the goals it had for 6,000 seafarers, “he stressed.
Regarding discharges to the National Guard, according to information from the Ministry of Public Security, from July to December 2019, only eight discharges were made to the corporation.
A militarized institution
David Blanc recalled that in his last two electoral campaigns Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to withdraw the Armed Forces from public security tasks; however, upon reaching the Presidency of the Republic, the Federal Police dissolved and decided to create the National Guard, a civilian security body, which is in fact military.
“The National Guard is a military corporation, it is clearly a direct extension of the Armed Forces. There is no delimitation between guards and military support, “he said.
For Alejandro Hope, the creation of the Guard was only a pretext to keep elements of the Ministry of National Defense and Navy in security tasks.
“In practice, what they did was change the name of the Federal Police, add commissioned elements of the Armed Forces. That could have been done without constitutional reform. So why did they want to make a constitutional reform? Because the heart of what they wanted was not the National Guard, the heart of what they wanted was the fifth transitory article, which gives the Armed Forces powers to intervene directly in public security tasks, “he said.
The president of Causa en Común, María Elena Morera, affirmed that Mexico is still caught up in the issue of militarization, without presenting results to live in peace.
He recalled that it is not the responsibility of the Armed Forces to deal with public security tasks, but they are also not prepared to do so.
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