As planned, the Morenoist steamroller and its allies approved the assignment of the National Guard to the National Defense Secretariat, as President López Obrador had always wanted.
From this agreement, which must be ratified by the Senate, the National Guard will be responsible for implementing the public security strategy or policy of the next government, the design of which will be in accordance with the Minister of Security who will lead it. Omar Garcia Harfuch.
However, the most significant change concerns not only the transfer of salaries from the Ministry of Security to National Defense, but also the authority given to the National Guard to investigate crimes, under the leadership of the public ministry. which in effect means that the military (because they are members of the GN) can detain suspects if the public ministry requires it.
Imagine a scenario where the investigation and arrests are carried out by the military.
If the police at ministerial level, accused of systematic corruption and human rights abuses, make people afraid, then the idea that the military could “investigate” or arrest them is worrying.
The opposition has the right to question this provision because in most of the countries where the GN contingent was sent, crime has not decreased; in some places it has even increased.
That’s the case of Acapulco.
The senators have the responsibility and the possibility to clarify the doubts that this initiative has raised among the public, although making any changes to the minutes they will receive from the deputies would mean returning them, that is, delaying the final approval for several weeks.
But, what is eternal, is the urgency of Morena legislators to immediately and without changing a comma approve López Obrador’s initiative as his parting gift.
In the end, the one who will pay the bill is Claudia Sheinbaum.
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Even though the joke is very old, it also applies to this case. Ruben Rocha MoyaThe governor of Sinaloa, who has been nicknamed the bikini: no one knows how it will survive but many want it to fall.
And the governor, as if he were not already fed up with the confrontation that has frightened the population and in a critical phase of the local economy in Culiacán, insists on taking political control of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
Yesterday the local Congress approved the opinion of the Science and Technology Commission to reform the Organic Law of the study house, which was then passed to the plenary session for approval.
The reform proposed by Rocha Moya, who has become the Chancellor of UAS, aims to ensure that the election of the Chancellor is carried out through direct voting by the university community, similar to the integration of the University Council.
They intend to establish an independent University Court, also elected through direct voting of the UAS community, the University Ombudsman’s Office and the Electoral and Consultative Commission, such as the one that conducted the survey in Morena.
The problem is, behind the guise of “democratization” of university life, there is a struggle between power groups that has claimed the life of a former rector. Hector Melesio Cuenwho is a leader who has controlled university life for many years.
How much political spoils does UAS represent for Rocha, who is below his popularity, to insist on seizing control of the university, without considering the political repercussions of the decision?
It will be visible.
@adriantrejo
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