Mexico’s lower congressional chamber held a midnight vote that gave ultimate control of their civilian federal police force to the nation’s military.
The move sparked much controversy as Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his party had campaigned to de-militarizing the country as a way to diminish the rampant cartel violence.
In August, López Obrador said that he would publish a decree to transfer the command of the institution to SEDENA . He added that he would also ask for a series of reforms from Congress so that the military could control the budget and administration of the National Guard,Lopez Obrador created the National Guard in 2019 as his answer to solving the cartel violence and corruption plaguing the country.
At the time that the National Guard was created, AMLO and the Morena Party agreed with other parties that the command of the National Guard would be civilian and that it would only resort to the Armed Forces in an “extraordinary case.”
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