Bachelet bets on the national guard created by L …

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, wished that the National Guard put an end to the "paradigm" of security and violence of the last 12 years in Mexico and offered the opportunity to be safe. badistance from the body she directs.

"The National Guard represents an opportunity to build a society that makes the state's security obligations compatible while protecting the human rights of its inhabitants," said Bachelet at the National Palace.

When signing a collaboration agreement between the UN and the Government of Mexico for the first to advise on the formation of the National Guard, Bachelet hoped that the new security agency would surpbad the "paradigm "from the last 12 years. "It deprived people and was a source of grievance for their rights," he said.

He spoke of the so-called war against drug trafficking, which began in 2006, during the time of President Felipe Calderón (2016-2012), and led the army on the streets to fight against crime. but also unleash a wave of violence.

For Bachelet, this framework agreement signed by the UN and the López Obrador government is "wide" and more than plans to help with the training of elements of the more than 50,000 elements that will form the National Guard.

This pact also includes citizen building mechanisms, the construction of indicators, greater transparency and accountability, as well as the dignity of the police function.

In his speech, López Obrador said that the agreement on the National Guard, which required constitutional reform, is an "important and almost historic act". He baderted that "with the new corps, the army and the navy will be able to act in a formal and regulated manner in the work of public safety. "It's a big step forward," he said.

The leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), a left-wing party, also defended the Mexican army because it declared that it was born out of the revolution, which began in 1910 and was ended with the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. The president said that when the army had been hijacked, it was on the orders of the civilian authority. In reference to the Tlatelolco mbadacre of 1968, López Obrador said that the order to fire on the student crowd "had been given by the President of the Republic (Gustavo Díaz Ordaz) and executed by the presidential staff, organ of Presidency-elite "which was abolished early in the current government. López Obrador hopes that with the National Guard, "serene country", which last year stood at over 33,000 murders.

For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, said that the National Guard must "have in its DNA, in its formation and its conception, respect for human rights".

For his part, the Secretary for Security and Protection of Citizens of Mexico, Alfonso Durazo, recalled that violations of human rights "multiply and perpetuate with impunity".

"And any outrage that is not clarified, sanctions or reparations, encourages its repetition," he added. The official added that he hoped that the National Guard would help "restore peace" and would be "exemplary" in order to meet "the most stringent international standards in the field of human rights".

Prior to this signing, the Mexican president announced that the leadership of the new National Guard will be announced Thursday. We will then know who he proposes at the head of the new security organ, which will most likely be an active army, which has sparked controversy.