The UN has expressed in Mexico its concern for the creation of the National Guard

Working groups and UN Rapporteurs-Human Rights expressed their "serious concern" about the draft constitutional reform bill which creation of the National Guard in Mexico.

The representatives stressed that its creation "would give a permanent character to a militarized public security system", as they have repeatedly questioned in the past.

In a statement, the agency said that thanks to the constitutional reforms approved on January 16 by the Chamber of Deputies and which are currently under discussion in the Senate, it would be "granted to permanent faculties of the armed forces to perform public safety and criminal investigation"

The UN statement adds to the concern of civil society organizations and Mexican intellectuals, some grouped in the collective Security without war, who spoke out against the creation of this security organ in their effects on the question of respect for human rights.

The agency has made reference to many recommendations conducted by independent bodies and experts "with regard to the need to minimize the participation of the armed forces in security tasks".

In addition, to "properly separate police and military functions, as well as guarantee responsibility for human rights violations committed by its members ".

The UN has withdrawn to badist the Mexican state in its efforts to strengthen the country's legislative and institutional framework and thus ensure the realization of the rights of all people.

To fight against the serious rates of violence suffered by Mexico, which counted 33,341 voluntary homicides in 2018, the highest rate recorded since then, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed the creation of a national guard led by the Army and trained by the army. , naval troops and federal police.

Before requests for the new organization to have a civic address, López Obrador decided that the National Guard had a civilian administrative mandate and a military mandate in operations.

With this proposal, López Obrador he has not kept his promise of a campaign involving the return of barracks to the army that since the presidency of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), they patrol the streets of the country to fight against drug trafficking and are accused of serious violations of human rights.

Despite the president promised to call a citizen consultation By March 21, to endorse the existence of the National Guard, the procedures for its creation have already begun in Congress and the government has already presented a plan to recruit 50,000 young people who would integrate the body.

In this regard, the Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, asked senators to National Regeneration Movement in Power (Brunette) build consensus with the opposition to approve the National Guard as soon as possible.

"Know that focus on the subject is not silly;The creation of the National Guard remains the government's priority of the Republic, "he said.

Secretary of Public Security, Alfonso Durazo, also defended the creation of the security corps under the argument that it is necessary to fight against organized crime.