Thread: Mexican Military generals propose death penalty in Mexico

original - http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/161901.html

Army wants police with military discipline
They point out flaws in overall national security and intelligence organ criticize


Jorge Alejandro Medellin
El Universal
Monday August 25, 2008
jorge.medellin @ eluniversal.com.mx
A project to restructure the military to fund the police corps in the country poses to create a national police action governed by internal control and discipline of military type, which include the death penalty for those elements which are allied to organized crime.

Since a week ago the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), Guillermo Galvan Galvan, has his office in the project to professionalize the police, which also seeks that the military return to their barracks to meet their original missions.

The project-content in three volumes of approximately 200 pages each-considered a constitutional reform to give life in addition to "police jurisdiction".

"It would be an avenue for self-protection or give impunity to police, but an entire legal structure to contain it, and discipline to avoid excesses," said military linked to the project.

If approved by the military high command, the document would be sent to the Presidency of the Republic as a settlement proposal to the agenda of public safety.

One of the high points of the project, contained in volume II (police code of justice), provides for the reactivation of the death penalty as exemplary punishment to those police officers who commit acts of rebellion, sedition, sabotage, treason or causing death superior to, among other crimes.

The volume I, on legislation police, and volume III deals with the regulation police, the complete package which revises Galvan.

"The real national security"

The project was developed by a group of generals with extensive experience in managing national security. Some of them have served in combat organized crime.

A summary of the most important points of the project and which has THE UNIVERSAL copy, said that the draft was submitted to General Galván "as a concern for professional help in solving major national problems".

The bill contains a diagnosis on the situation of the country's national security, public safety and activity of organized crime.

The text recognizes the "superiority of the crime before the various levels of government, whose network of intelligence and counterintelligence was overtaken by organized crime," which is viewed by the authors as "an intelligence network that is always a step forward for public safety throughout the country. "

He also pointed out that it is necessary to create the post of a General Staff in each government agency to interfere in the preservation of national security.

Thus, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Ministry of Public Security, the Attorney General of the Republic, CIS, OFDI and the AFI would have a staff headed by military, not only to combat organized crime, but to cope new threats to security of the nation, said the analysis.

The military responsible for the document and the project vary widely around the current performance of the CIS, which they see as "an instrument of political espionage without compliance with its goals of being effective tool in the field of intelligence and counterintelligence, indispensable work that ensures national security ". This text also says the insistence of the advisers of the President of the Republic in combating drug trafficking as if that was the only threat to the country's security.

About time somebody grew a pair a proposed the death penalty in Mexico.

IMHO, it's way overdue.

What I don't get is that the death penalty seems to be only limited to police. It seems this will serve to deter new police recruits, but does not address the basis of the problem of police corruption which is the easy money from the violent drug cartels. Do they get the death penalty also?
Or are these guys supposed to be the problem of the US?