AZMEX POLICY 27-4-19

AZMEX POLICY 27 APR 2019

Note: long article, but no mention of stopping the drug trade. Have to question why?
Also: will the new "National Guard" be the enforcers for the Morena party?
Gracias



Senate approves the National Public Security Strategy
The legislators approved in general and particular, with 78 votes in favor, four against and 30 abstentions,
the National Strategy of Public Safety of the Federal Executive

04/25/2019 10:00 PM NOTIMEX

https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/senado-aprueba-la-estrategia-nacional-de-seguridad-publica/1309530

The Senate approved in general and particular the National Public Security Strategy of the Federal Executive,
with 78 votes in favor, four against and 30 abstentions. - Photo: @senadomexicano

MEXICO CITY.

The Senate approved in general and particular the National Strategy of Public Security of the Federal Executive,
with 78 votes in favor, four against and 30 abstentions.

In a prolonged session, which included the appearance of the secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo Montaño,
the legislative body gave the green light to the document presented on February 1 last.

In the debate the senators Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, of the PRI, and Julen Rementería, of the PAN, questioned the purposes of the Strategy,
while Virginia Meza Guzmán, of Morena, defended it considering that it contemplates the how and why to overthrow violence and insecurity.

In turn, Alejandra del Carmen León Gastélum, of the PT, maintained that the document "seeks to address the security problems from its root",
while, by Movimiento Ciudadano, Dante Delgado Rannauro announced that they will be attentive to the results that the action of the National Guard.

For the PRI, Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín argued that security does not depend on political discourses,
but that there are bodies in the matter that are honest and committed to society. (???)

He considered that the Strategy in the matter is a fundamentally declarative document, with an analysis and political declaration
and "there are no data or figures that allow knowing how the Federal Government understands the situation of insecurity and violence".

He clarified that the PRI members "do not rejoice that the government can not meet their goals" in terms of security,
and insisted that the Strategy is an incomplete document "that by itself will not help us overcome violence and insecurity" .

Julen Rementería del Puerto, of the PAN, clarified that they are not against the "good intention" of achieving peace in the country,
"what we do not see is that this document reaches as a strategy".

When we have a strategy at hand we would be able to approve it, "added the PAN legislator,
who added that the problem of insecurity will not be resolved with acts of good faith or good intentions.

For Morena, Senator Lucia Virginia Meza asked for the vote in favor of this Strategy "that Mexico urgently needs,"
because the country is in great pain because of all that it is living through.

In his opinion, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has not promised that in six months the security problem will be resolved,
but rather that the National Guard will come into operation in that period, underpinning the Strategy .


Within the strategy that was presented before by Durazo Montaño, priority is placed on combating the crimes that most affect society,
including extortion, robbery, kidnapping, homicide, femicide and human trafficking.


Previously, the secretary of Security and Citizen Protection said that it intends to achieve a turning point
in the trend of crime in the first six months of its application.

Achieve reasonable levels of peace and tranquility in the first three years, and take advantage of the remaining three years of the sexennium
to consolidate the results and deliver, in 2024, a stable and peaceful country, "he said.

He explained that not only is the pursuit of criminal objectives pursued, but also to dismantle their structures
based on the million-dollar flow of resources and weapons, which includes the Financial Intelligence Unit
to attack parallel financial schemes and the persecution of leaders of criminal organizations.

In addition, it proposes a radical reform of the public security system and partially reorient the resources of the Armed Forces
to assign them, primarily, to public security.

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