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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 30 January 2017
Mexico: Internal security law: trouble brewing
For over ten years Mexico has lived with a legal anomaly. Despite having no constitutional mandate or responsibility for internal security, the armed forces (particularly the army and the navy) have, by government order, been leading the campaign against the drug cartels and organised crime. Now, the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is proposing to end the anomaly by introducing a new internal security law. Other political parties have also submitted their own bills and there will be an attempt in February, after the end of the congressional recess, to integrate the various competing texts. Human-rights groups think the law will make matters worse, not better.
