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The country is in a spiral of violence fueled by drug trafficking and the proposal includes an amnesty law to pardon the low levels of the criminal world
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Diego Oré, Reuters
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July 6, 2018, 8:36 pm
Manuel López Obrador at a campaign event in the district of Monterrey "
Mexico City – A team of president-elect of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presented Friday his proposal to pacify the country without firing more bullets, at a time when Mexico is in a spiral
The group, led by the former judge of the Supreme Court Olga Sánchez, who is also expected to be the next Secretary of the Interior, told Reuters – before the press meeting to give more details – that the plan inscribed within the framework of 39, a comprehensive transitional justice program.
The proposal includes not only a controversial amnesty law to forgive the lower clbades of the world's criminal law, as well as a personalized law of reduction of sentences for anyone providing information to capture traffickers, and the decriminalization of marijuana and poppy, a plant whose opium gum is extracted to make the heroin that floods the states "It will not be just an amnesty, it will be a law for to reduce prison time, we will propose decriminalization, we will create truth commissions, we will tackle the causes of poverty, we will give scholarships to young people, and "Sánchez, a 63-year-old jurist."
In 2006, In the face of entrenched police corruption President Felipe Calderón ordered the army to take to the streets to fight against delinquency which, far from being contained after 12 years of fighting, was eng and reinforced, diverse, leaving 160,000 dead and tens of thousands missing.
Leftist López Obrador, known as AMLO, who will take office on December 1 after winning the elections on Sunday, proposed a different approach to ending a war that led the country to lose 21% of its gross domestic product. according to private calculations.
The security team reported later Friday that the plan, which should be touched immediately, also includes a new focus on security, such as reducing the rise of arms trafficking in the country, as well as the illicit flow.
The indicated to the Secretary of Security, Alfonso Durazo, said that he proposes to change the operation of the security filters to combat the trafficking of arms, as they are currently only applied ". on the northern border of the country, and fight against corruption in customs, ports and airports
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