{"id":1632890,"date":"2022-09-05T06:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632890"},"modified":"2022-09-05T06:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:48:28","slug":"politicians-in-mexico-hold-midnight-vote-to-militarize-federal-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politicians-in-mexico-hold-midnight-vote-to-militarize-federal-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians in Mexico Hold Midnight Vote to Militarize Federal Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoliticians-in-mexico-hold-midnight-vote-to-militarize-federal-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Mexico\u2019s lower congressional chamber held a midnight vote that gave ultimate control of their civilian federal police force to the nation\u2019s military. The move sparked much controversy as Mexico\u2019s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and his party had campaigned to de-militarizing the country as a way to diminish the rampant cartel violence.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Mexico\u2019s chamber of deputies voted in favor of a series of reforms to the nations law that had been proposed by Lopez Obrador. The changes called for turning control of the civilian federal police force called the National Guard over to the country\u2019s National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA), the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/mexico\/2022-09-03\/la-camara-de-diputados-aprueba-las-reformas-para-que-la-guardia-nacional-pertenezca-al-ejercito.html\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a> reported. The controversial vote went along party lines with the members of the ruling party Morena voting in favor of the move.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In August, L\u00f3pez Obrador said that he would publish a decree to transfer the command of the institution to SEDENA (Mexican Army). 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eluniversal.com.mx\/nacion\/avalan-en-san-lazaro-iniciativa-para-pasar-guardia-nacional-la-sedena\">El Universal<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador created the National Guard in 2019 as his answer to solving the cartel violence and corruption plaguing the country. Lopez Obrador disbanded the nation\u2019s federal police and moved those agents to the National Guard to bolster the troop numbers. He then moved several soldiers and naval infantrymen over from SEDENA and the Naval Secretariat (SEMAR).<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Mexican National Guard has 115,000 members nationwide. However, the security body has drawn much criticism for its lack of performance as cartel violence continues to spread throughout the country. This is despite claims by AMLO that crime rates are dropping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>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 \u201cextraordinary case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move to militarize the National Guard was fiercely contested by opposition parties which led to fierce debates. They did not have the numbers to win the vote. Jorge Triana, a politician from the National Action Party (PAN), lashed at Lopez Obrador and the move by Morena calling him, \u201cThe most militaristic president in the history of the country,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milenio.com\/politica\/morena-presenta-reforma-guardia-nacional-piden-discusion-fast-track\">Milenio<\/a> news reported.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Gerardo Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a, a politician from the Workers Party (PT), defended Lopez Obrador claiming that his movement, also known as the Fourth Transformation, would never use the military to repress the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was you who militarized the country,\u201d Fernandez Noro\u00f1a said. \u201cIt was you who bathed the country in blood. It was you who put the nation in this nightmare. And it is you who, in alliance with drug traffickers, that continue to set the country on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart Texas previously reported, Fernandez Noro\u00f1a has been a controversial figure for some time after he posted a shirtless photo of himself and reportedly requested nude images from social media influencers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a aparece en toalla y burlas no se hacen esperar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DVU65t0LmN\">https:\/\/t.co\/DVU65t0LmN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ocZj2rNpF\">pic.twitter.com\/6ocZj2rNpF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El Horizonte (@ElHorizontemx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElHorizontemx\/status\/1215011567097597953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby\u00a0and senior Breitbart management.\u00a0You can follow him on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IldefonsoOrtiz\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ildefonso-Ortiz\/731511040246659\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:Iortiz@breitbart.com\"><em>Iortiz@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brandondarby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>Twitter\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brandonmichaeldarby\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:bdarby@breitbart.com\"><em>bdarby@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cC.P. Mireles\u201d from Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s lower congressional chamber held a midnight vote that gave ultimate control of their civilian federal police force to the nation\u2019s military. The move sparked much controversy as Mexico\u2019s President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}