A military general experienced in the field of human rights and the fight against drug trafficking is preparing for the National Guard

Víctor Hugo Aguirre Serna, has been designated as the strongest card at the head of the National Guard, they would have confirmed sources from the federal government, as reported in the newspaper L & # 39; universal.

He is an active military with a long academic and operational history. In November of last year, he was promoted to Major General, the highest rank of the army, by the then President, Enrique Peña Nieto, with the ratification of the Senate of the Republic.

He is currently attached to the command of the 5 / a Military Police Brigade, based in the State of Mexico. The military police will be integrated into the National Guard, whose operation is estimated at three months and its members receive training for first responder functions, based on the adversarial criminal system.

He was one of the generals honored by the former Secretary of National Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, for his work in the last administration.

Aguirre Serna was rector of the Mexican Army and the Air Force Universityas well as Director General of Military Education. He was also commander of the 40th military zone based in Baja California Sur.

"We will comply with it whenever necessary," he said in 2013, referring to the work supporting public security that the army offers in different states.

In 2016, Víctor Hugo Aguirre Serna He served as Chief of Staff of the 10th Military Region, which includes the states of Quintana Roo, Yucatán and Campeche.

He was posted to Tamaulipas as commander of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Department of National Defense (Sedena)., in the year 2011, in full dispute between the cartel of the Gulf and Los Zetas.

Former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa promoted him to the rank of brigadier in November 2011..

Before leaving the presbytery of the Mexican Army and Air Force University, he said that the armed forces would still serve Mexicans.

Experience in the fight against drug trafficking

Political badyst Juan Veledíaz has exposed in newspapers that Aguirre Serna had the necessary experience for the post due to the fact thatAccording to his criminal record, he collaborated closely in the fight against drug trafficking, as well as in the case of soldiers accused of violating the fundamental rights of citizens., only two of the issues that the government wants to prioritize with the National Guard.

Between June and November 1987, the then captain, Aguirre Serna, was in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, as an information officer for the March Task Force.. The annotation corresponds to a stage where ayes he knew the campaigns against the drug, the military working group concept was applied to field operations where troops were divided into groups, each badigned to sectors, as in the territorial division of the confluence of the mountain of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango.

He had to badyze cases of soldiers who violated the human rights of civilians

In the summer of 2000 Colonel of the time, Aguirre Serna, attached to Military Zone 35 based in Chilpancingo, in the state of Guerrero, was one of the military who had learned what had happened to the peasants Teodoro Cabrera García and Rodolfo Montiel Flores, a paradigmatic case of violation of human rights. where members of the 40th Infantry Battalion of Ciudad Altamirano were accused of "arbitrary detention, cruel and degrading treatment" as a result of a clash in the community of Pizotla, municipality of Ajuchitlán del Progreso, at Tierra Caliente de Guerrero, where they were arrested. On this occasion, on the orders of the commander of the military zone, he went there to hear the case.

It is perhaps for this reason that General Aguirre Serna is well acquainted with the limits of the use of armed force. In recent years, one of the goals of their academic work has not been to integrate human rights issues into military clbadrooms. Both in the military attaché in Guatemala, where he was added, that in the duties of Assistant Secretary of National Defense where he was badigned, his superiors put forward his "honesty" and his "moral quality".