Mexico's elected president to propose an amnesty law

MEXICO CITY – Security Councilors elected President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that amnesty legislation to reduce violence will be developed with the assistance of victims of crime and presented in the Mexican Congress.

Alfonso Durazo The new Minister of Public Security said that the amnesty law would be part of a "Mexican recipe for peace". The amnesty would not be granted at the discretion of the president, he said. Congress will have the last word

"The goal of this law is to bring young people who, for various reasons of economic survival, extortion, organized crime pressure, are working in the country. Illegality in the legal, "said Durazo. There could be hundreds of thousands of young people watching for organized crime. "We must give them a way out."

Opponents of Lopez Obrador attacked throughout the campaign about the idea of ​​amnesty, but he won an overwhelming electoral victory on July 1 and will take office on December 1 . Olga Sanchez, the proposed interior secretary, said the president-elect had made it clear that rampant violence in Mexico would not be dealt with more violently. She also mentioned the possibility of reducing some criminal sanctions without providing more details.

Mexico is on the verge of having more murders in 2018 than any other year at least in the last two decades. More than 200,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon took office at the end of 2006.

Lorreta Ortiz, Lopez Obrador's human rights adviser, said the new administration would start immediately organize citizen forums. knock on doors across the country to gather comments that can be used to develop amnesty legislation.

"In the beginning, no one who has committed a violent act, only one violent act will be amnestied," said Ortiz. Those who might be eligible would be children and women recruited by organized crime to work as lookouts or mules, farmers who grow drugs and people imprisoned for ideologically-based political crimes.

Durazo said that the administration will also work to improve police capabilities so that the military can be removed from the role of police officer that it has served for years in some parts of the country.

The new government will improve the filters to intercept illegal weapons and drug products circulating in the country. He pointed out that the problem of the escalation of violence did not appear in a day and that "it would not be solved in a day"