Militarism to 100 years of the Revolution
By Miguel Angel Granados Chapa
The President Felipe Calderon has kept a close relationship with the military, if it depends on him as supreme commander, also imposes its rules and visions of national life
The Madero revolution triumphed in May 1910 following the military defeat Federal Ciudad Juárez, which has become a century later the military domain, returning the troops to attempt to bringing security. That same Madero revolution, whose centenary was recalled yesterday, was defeated by a coup led by a traitorous general, after other senior military leaders (Bernardo Reyes in the lead) had rebelled against institutions.
That revolution, therefore, included the fight against military rule that had to be reduced by the revolutionary process itself. And yet, his first century has been celebrated with signs of militarization, reinforced that this government has introduced since its inception in December 2006. Lacking political support, has relied on its own that gives the PRI and their legitimacy questioned, President Felipe Calderon has kept a close relationship with the military, if it depends on him as supreme commander, also imposes its rules and visions of national life.
yesterday, the sports parade was replaced by a military character, and postponed to next Saturday. For decades it had been established that the Army, Air Force, the Navy will be displayed in the streets of Mexico City and major cities on September 16 and November 20 that those spaces were occupied by athletes. This year, however, there were two military parades, plus other festivals same character. It is the sign of the times. This is to show ordinary citizens the power of the armed forces to maintain the good image people have of them constant despite the numerous violations of the law and no longer limited to human rights violations that not a few of its members committed in his dubious public security functions.
In the same vein, just this Thursday, the Senate Executive presented an initiative to militarize the army, if it fits the expression. This is a draft amendment of the Organic Law of the Army and Air Force, and the law of promotions and rewards of both clusters, whose purpose is that the secretary National Defense-not the President, but the highest-ranking military personnel, has provided administrative and professional services to integrate the fight against organized crime. Currently, 40 percent of just over 200 thousand soldiers that depend on the Department of Defense is engaged in administrative work (quartermaster are called in military speak) and professional duties, are mainly doctors and engineers and technicians in various branches, trained in military establishments, but only in the disciplines of the specialty and not necessarily in the use of weapons. The mechanism is to expedite the reform by the reclassification, ie the assignment of members of the Army and Air Force to a service or non-native weapon. (Arms in military terms is called not only the instruments of attack and defense in which management is seeking to be experts, but the branches into which the corporation, are three: infantry, cavalry and artillery.)
Although Government is a measurement made by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, are to take into account the data provided the Seventh National Survey on Insecurity. The Marina was rated 8.3 on a scale of one to 10, and enjoys the confidence of 55 percent of respondents, although a much smaller proportion, 43.3 percent recognized effectiveness in performance. The Army, in turn, is slightly below the indicators: it has a rating of 8.1, 52.5 confidence and approval for its performance of 41.1 percent. (Federal Police, however, has largely been the daughter of the military institutions, and whose maturity would allow the return of soldiers and sailors to their quarters, is poorly situated to the pub-lic opinion: your score is just aprobato-ria: 6.8 per cent, "trust in it only a quarter of the surveyed population (24.6 percent) and so-so 15.1 percent is efficient performance.
mili-tary image fades in places where military installations functions in public safety: Friday 12 pitched just 200 soldiers in the town of Heliodorus Guerrero Castillo, and often the complaints against them, "a neighbor took him 20 thousand dollars and other jewelry of his wife. All people are terrified by the unexpected arrival of the military, patrolling pointing their guns at the residents and the houses that tumble detection device indicates its doors for the revisions, "say plaintiffs state commission on human rights and even to XXXV command of the Military Zone (La Jornada, November 16).
Sunday 14, as reported the next day the Ministry of National Defense, "two civilians die trying to evade a checkpoint operating a mixed group. "The commander of Military Zone XXX reported that at one Sunday morning" in a checkpoint in the town of Jalpa de Mendez, Tabasco, established by the Joint Operation Group Tabasco, it marked the end to a Ford Expedition SUV, with license plates WPD 8248 Tabasco state, with two civilians on board who tried to evade the checkpoint said, so personal the Department of the Navy / Army of Mexico member of this group powered weapons fire, died at the scene the two crew of civilian vehicle, Quie-tions were identified as Victor two Manuel Chan Javier, 21 years old, (and) Ramón Pérez Román, 23 years old.
"Inside the vehicle squad said a pistol cal. 380 mm, a magazine for such a gun, two rounds of ammunition of the same caliber shell casings and a cal. 380 mm." As has happened in similar episodes in Sinaloa, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, the military version seems to correspond to the facts. At the request of the Attorney General of Tabasco, the General of the Republic and the investigation brought the case and is available to the 14 present members of state corporations in the operation (six ministerial agents, six state security, two policemen local roads.) Not so with the 10 members of the Army, seven of the Navy and two from the Federal Police. Is that the relatives of the victims claim that their children were not armed and were engaged in legitimate trade. Governor Andres Granier endorsed these sayings, ensuring that the boys killed belonged to "honorable families."
In such cases the army has set up to hide the bad-tempered scenes action of some of its members and, he admits that crimes were committed, makes the military prosecutors bring to justice those suspected military, although the victims are civilians . Therefore, and to prevent impunity for the military offenders, a current humanitarian progress of Mexican and international agencies, civil justice to prosecute the military in these trances. American Court of Human Rights has issued two rulings against the Mexican government for actions of this kind, but Calderon's government was short on the implementation of legal reform that urges the failure of international justice, and is frozen in the Senate.
say, finally, that the command structure of the Department of Defense is in the hands of a group exemplified in the now Major General Augusto Moisés García Ochoa, whose rise to the maximum range was announced Thursday. He led the Narcotics Intelligence Center national, under the Secretary Enrique Cervantes Aguirre, was private secretary to Secretary Ricardo Clemente Vega Garcia and Director General for Administration (the powerful office that handles procurement), under Gen. Guillermo Galvan, who managed to Members 13 billion pesos for integrating 18 new battalions of infantry, but at the last minute refused.
miguelangel@granadoschapa.com
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Release Date: November 21, 1910
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