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Mexico's PAN Decries Weaker Military
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May 11, 2010
Mexico City – National Action Party (PAN) lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies said on Monday that decreasing the jurisdiction of the military would put Mexico’s security at risk because it would mean that the Armed Forces would be subordinate to civil authorities and their prestige and institutional strength would be threatened.
Martín Arce Paniagua, a PAN deputy, denied that there was a “total” consensus between all sectors regarding the reforms to the National Security Law, as the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) states.
“It is obvious that the Armed Forces will not express its discontent with the recent reforms, as they are institutions devoted to discipline and they respect the work of the Congress,” Arce, also member of the Public Security Committee, said.
He also criticized the PRD and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for interpreting the reform as a way to push away and blame the Armed Forces even though the Army and the Navy have been the ones fighting organized crime.
“Nobody wants individual rights violations or abuses from the Armed Forces. However, we cannot decrease the jurisdiction of the military because it would dishearten thousands of soldiers and will expose them to public prosecutors and judges who have no knowledge of the internal life of the Armed Forces,” he said.
The federal lawmaker from Baja California expressed his trust that the Chamber of Deputies would have a debate to enrich the reforms to the National Security Law and would not judge the military without first listening to them.
“There is a war against drug trafficking going on in which criminals have very good chances to corrupt state and municipal authorities. They decapitate and murder people and we want to tie the hands of the only institution that fights these criminals,” he concluded. |
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