The oorganization Amnesty International, in his last human rights report in Mexico, warned of the persistence of militarization in the country during the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Amnesty International accuses the 4T government of trying to get Congress to approve a reform so that the National Guard becomes part of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), “denying complaints of human rights violations presented by victims, civil society organizations and human rights activists.”
Likewise, he pointed out that they are seeking to promote said reform despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) has ordered the opposite“considering that the National Guard was a civil entity and that its actions should be dictated by the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection.”
The organization highlighted in its report that, in 2023the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued 28 recommendations to the Sedena and to the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) for torture, extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances; One of these resolutions refers to the execution of five people by military personnel in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, events that occurred on February 26 of last year, but were made known in a video on May 18.
Regarding the increase in military presence in public spaces, Amnesty International detailed that in January last year they deployed more than 6 thousand members of the National Guard in the Mexico City Metro“for supposed security reasons.”
The report notes “the lack of transparency, accountability and access to information” on the part of the Sedena, after in October of last year the Commission for Access to the Truth, Historical Clarification and the Promote Justice for Serious Human Rights Violations committed from 1965 to 1990 will denounce the “obstruction of access to historical documents” about abuses committed by military personnel in that period.
Finally, Amnesty International included the case of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa normal students like another case of lack of transparency on the part of the Armyand the protection of President López Obrador to the Armed Forces, after the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) decided to leave the country, following the military's refusal to provide information about the case, while the president announced that he would would be investigating the former prosecutor responsible for investigating the case, Omar Gómez Trejo, who tried to prosecute military personnel allegedly involved in the disappearance of the young people, who this year celebrates 10 years without justice.
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