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Mexico’s Armed Forces under AMLO

14 Apr 2022

Enter the AMLO Administration With Presidential elections looming in 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s campaign took on direct criticism of the armed forces’ human rights record, arguing against the use of the military as part of the security strategy and noting, “One can’t fight fire with fire.” On the campaign trail, while he decried the proximity of the political-military relationship, he als. [...] The term “Joint” represents the Army and the Air Force, but excludes the Navy, which continues to be part of the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR).27 Following AMLO’s initiative to transfer the National Guard under SEDENA from 2023, it appears likely that the command structure will then integrate the Army, National Guard, and Air Force under the EMCDN. [...] As part of the re-organization of the armed forces under AMLO, the most radical change was the dissolution of the Presidential Guard, one of the most visible military institutions in Mexico’s public life given its role in protecting the President, his family, and other high-level cabinet members. [...] The project aims to reactivate a railway along the 300-kilometer corridor, linking the ports of Salina Cruz in Oaxaca on the Pacific coast and Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, making Mexico a viable alternative to the Panama Canal as early as 2023. [...] Gulfweed Clean-Up Force The Navy was tasked to support the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) as well as the Department of Tourism (SECTUR) with the collection and removal of gulfweed on the coasts of Quintana Roo.

Authors

Íñigo Guevara Moyano

Pages
30
Published in
Canada