AZMEX POLICY 12-5-19

AZMEX POLICY 12 MAY 2019


Navy and Army were misused: AMLO
'Now there is going to be public security, now the citizens will be taken care of', said the president

Reforma
Sunday, May 12, 2019 | 19:20

https://diario.mx/nacional/semar-y-sedena-eran-desaprovechados-amlo-20190512-1514309/

Mexico City - Before the creation of the National Guard was approved to deal with public security,
the Army and the Navy were misused, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

"They could be assaulting, kidnapping, a citizen in front of a barracks and could not, according to the Constitution,
the sailors, the soldiers, intervene and did not have elements to guarantee the safety of the people,"
he said in a speech at this Mexican Pacific port.

López Obrador, a profound critic of the strategy initiated by former President Felipe Calderón
to get the army to fight crime, presented as an advance the constitutional reform to create the Guard with the military,
a measure that has been criticized by human rights organizations and by the UN
due to the high rate of Human Rights violations reported by the Army,
the fragile controls of accountability and because it follows the same path of combatting crime
that Calderón initiated and that has not worked.

"Do you know how many troops the President has to face the most serious problem of insecurity and violence?
Ten thousand elements throughout the country,
that was the Federal Police and only the Government, to take care of its facilities,
had to hire 50 thousand elements of the private police,
while the Army has 230 thousand elements, with facilities, with barracks, with discipline, with experience, with professionalism,
the Navy, 65 thousand elements,
"said López Obrador when making a summary of what he called
" his achievements "at the beginning of his Government in the Military Area of ​​Vallarta.

"Now that a constitutional reform has been achieved to create the National Guard
and unite the Army, the Navy, the Federal Police to take care of the people,
now there will be public security, now the citizens will be taken care of. important,
that this progress was achieved, "said the President.

In the event where he was accompanied by the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro,
the President urged to make more changes like this as quickly as possible, since he will not accept re-election.

"We are going to transform Mexico for us and for those who come after us, our children, our grandchildren,
and we have to hurry because in my case I do not accept re-election,
I am a Maderista: effective suffrage, not reelection," he assured.


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