López Obrador suggested a neighborhood surveillance system that is compared to Cuba and the Venezuelan dictatorship of Castro

Mexican President urged citizens to be vigilant towards their corrupt neighbors (Video: YouTube / Mexico literal)

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a petition to the citizens so that report to authorities their neighbors suspected of being corrupt.

The request has caused controversy by being compared to a system that implemented the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba from the sixties called Committees for the defense of the revolution (CDR)whose role was to boost the delations and collective supervision tasks possible acts of foreign intervention or destabilization of the political system.

Each block has integrated its RDC, and the RDC presidents of each block have formed the RDC of the district, the province and the national.

Lopez Obrador suggested in his Wednesday morning press conference that citizens help to detect their corrupt neighbors observe changes in the way they dress, their properties and on the basis of neighborhood conversations in which they are commented if the person living next door moves to a more luxurious place.

"There are things that can not be hidden, usually the corrupt are very puppet, the first thing they do is buy residences, luxury cars, start spending for luxury cars. You can see how the neighbor lives, has already moved, no longer lives in the doctors district (popular district of Mexico City) and went to Las Lomas (one of the most expensive residential neighborhoods). All that is denounced"said the Mexican president.

In Venezuela, a law signed by Hugo Chávez in 2008 this triggered a kind of neighborhood spying network, which could be summoned to denounce suspected dissidents.

According to a cable from the news agency AP dated June 3 of this year, the law punished Venezuelans who refused to cooperate as informants intelligence agencies, which provoked protests from human rights groups who considered it to be an instrument to crush the opposition.

Chávez has maintained links with community groups in neighborhoods and created the so-called "communal councils"Neighbors, who have been designated as the equivalent of Cuba's CDRs," often provide a forum for neighbors to spy on and report suspicious activity to the authorities, "the cable added. AP .

Although López Obrador's statement went almost unnoticed in Mexico, On social networks, they compared their comments with those of Cuba and the Venezuelan dictatorship.

YouTube and Twitter have both launched a series of criticisms against AMLO: "Supervisory committees in the pure style of Castro or Gestapo Nazi, "said a user.

The strongest critics have been made on Twitter, where the user @ maitemx1 has released the excerpt of the video with the AMLO statement, accompanied by the commentary "in the purest Cuban style between neighbors, they are accused and can receive a reward. "

"At the time of the inquisition that is why they tortured and burned people, in Nazism that took thousands of people to concentration camps and at the time of Castro, those same men and women imprisoned who did not agree with his government, "replied another user.

López Obrador has been criticized internationally for failing to join the bloc of countries that demand the departure of Nicolás Maduro's power in Venezuela. His Government, along with that of Uruguay, adopted a position of neutrality in which he called for a dialogue to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis in that country.