translated from Spanish: Armed forces clashes in more populated areas

The clashes of the Armed Forces-Army and navy-with suspected criminals, between 2006 and 2018, “tended to occur in more populated areas”, in fact 51% of the population lives in a municipality where a violent clash of that type occurred, indicates the study of The Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City entitled Public Safety focused on the use of force and military intervention, citing figures from INEGI.
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In the context of the adoption of the National Guard’s secondary laws, the analysis refers to which armed forces were involved in clashes in the previous two six, in addition to analyzing the coincidences in the Presidents ‘ discourse Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto, to justify the performance of the Army and the Navy in tasks of public security, and of combat to organized crime.
“A clear indication of the predominant role of the armed forces in public security during the period 2006-2018 is the number of clashes in which the different forces are involved. This figure is a product of the level of activity of the Armed Forces and tactics (for example, patrols) that give way to the clash, as well as the level of activity and tactics used by criminals, “is read in the study.
Information provided by the Seder, the Semar and the Federal police for the period of the six of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, refers to the document, indicates that the vast majority of the 4.250 clashes between federal forces and alleged criminals Were starred by the Seder (75%), followed by the Federal police (18%) and Semar (7%).
“During the six of Calderon and Peña Nieto, the army was involved in clashes in almost 24% of the 2.463 municipalities in the country, twice the geographical distribution of the clashes held by the Federal police (12%).”
“The clashes tended to occur in more populated areas, since 51% of the population lives in a municipality where there was a clash with the Armed Forces (INEGI)”.
Another point, in terms of geographical distribution, is that in the previous two six, 50% of the armed forces clashes were concentrated in only 23 municipalities, “All in
The states of Coahuila, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas. ”
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The phenomenon of militarization, the study points out, has been gestated in Mexico.
“Although external interests, mainly from the United States, have made available to the country resources such as armament and military training-almost without restriction-this has been at the Express and public request of the Mexican government,” the analysis concludes.
“The armed forces have increased their state of power significantly, strengthening their legitimacy based on the historical role of defending the nation and external interests or threats. They have also benefited from an important programme of modernization and improvement of working conditions. ”
After twelve years of military intervention, the document is stressed, “more and more military, state and private resources have been set up-whose nature has never been clear-for the militarization of public security.”
Although Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto and Andrés Manuel López Obrador have conceptualized the security problem differently, the authors point out, in other discursive aspects, a discourse aimed at militarization is adopted.
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“There is little confidence in civil institutions, no time limits or targets for military deployment have been defined, nor has the need for civilian command on military intervention been established in these tasks.”
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Original source in Spanish