Not even 24 hours had passed since the Senate would approve the Constitutional reform why the National guard will be attached to Mexican armywhen at least eight state congresses had already endorsed this modification, so that on the last day of his government the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador I left it enacted.
Yesterday, at 6:00 in the morning and after nine hours of discussion, the pro-government majority in the Senate approved with 86 votes in favor and 42 against the reform that modifies 12 articles of the Mexican Constitution and allows the Army to have administrative and operational control of the National guard (GN).
Once again, the vote of the still senator of the National Action Party (PAN), Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquezgave the qualified majority to Morena.
Immediately the local congresses called extraordinary sessions and until the closing of this edition, the legislatures of Tabasco, Baja California, Mexico City, Durango, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Zacatecas and Yucatán They had already given their endorsement to the reform.
In addition, approval was emerging in Colima and Campeche. While the congresses of Michoacán, Tamaulipas and Veracruzhave their sessions scheduled for this Thursday.
In Durango, despite the fact that Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies PRI legislators They voted against, their local deputies voted for.
For the teacher Alejandro Martínez Serranospecialist in National Security from La Salle University, The reform of the National Guard allows the legal norm to be “matched with reality” since this police force already had a strong presence of military personnel, training and training was carried out in military installations and by elements of the Armed forces.
So now with the assignment of the National Guard to the Sedena, “that reality that was distorted is legalized, because in the context of the creation of the National Guard, the issue of its head, of its direction under an aspect, was above all civil within the Ministry of Public Security and now it is completely within the scope of the Secretary of National Defense”.
In this way, said the specialist, “we are going to have the Ministry of Defense handling the issues of the land army, the Mexican army, the Mexican Air Force and now the National Guard”, as happens in the gendarmerie in France, in the Civil Guard Spanish, where they have the presence of an area dedicated to work in public security but framed in a military force.
US points to Bartlett in Camarena case
A memo declassified by the United States Embassy in Mexico hinted at the possible complicity of Manuel Bartlett Díaz, then Secretary of the Interior and current director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), in the case of the kidnapping and murder of Enrique Kiki Camarena, an undercover agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), at the hands of the Guadalajara Cartel.
He murder of Camarena, occurred in February 1985, in Jalisco, It became one of the emblematic events in the history of drug trafficking. After being tortured for more than 30 hours, his death triggered strong pressure from the United States on the Mexican Government, which led to the dismantling of the criminal organization led by Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
The document dated 1986, discovered by anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte and journalists Juan Alberto Cedillo y John Grillo, reveals that there were “strong suspicions” that the protection of drug traffickers had reached senior officials of the Mexican government, including Bartlett. Although much of the memo is censored, the text suggests the connection between the corruption of Mexican institutions and the protection of drug trafficking leaders.
“Narcotics protection activities… reached the Secretary of the Interior, Manuel Bartlett Díaz. While these are simply strong suspicions due to indications of widespread corruption and extortion activities of [testado]it is not difficult to logically conclude that these activities ultimately benefit the top leaders of the Mexican government”says the message.
Despite the serious insinuations, Bartlett has steadfastly denied any involvement in the Camarena case, calling the accusations “fallacies.” However, suspicions about his alleged complicity were the subject of public discussion for decades, and his name appeared linked in various statements of those involved in the case.
The reopening of the ex-policeman’s trial Raúl López Álvarez, who was convicted for his participation in the Camarena kidnapping and later confessed to having exaggerated his role in the events, adds a new dimension to the investigation.
The American judge’s decision John A. Kronstadtin March 2023, to review this case, coupled with the declassification of new documents, renews interest in the connection between the organized crime and political figures prominent of the time.
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