translated from Spanish: AMLO gives official start to National Guard

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador officially presented at Campo Marte the start of the National Guard, a new public security force, and acknowledged that there is still no progress in combating insecurity.
“We have as pending to solve the serious problem of the insecurity of violence, there we cannot say that progress has been made, the same conditions prevail that we inherit from governments,” the representative said at sunday’s ceremony after claiming that they have improved economy, politics and social programs.
“But it was important to make the decision to create this National Guard and we have done it in a short time,” López Obrador added.
Read: National Guard will start without regulation, with doubts about its state of strength and training
“We suffer from the serious problem of insecurity and violence in our country, which deepened, intensified in recent times, while an anti-popular and cross-developmental economic policy was imposed,” the president said.
It also recognized the support of the Secretariat of the Navy and the Secretariat of National Defense in the formation of this new force.

National Guard Inauguration Ceremony at Campo Marte. https://t.co/ViRTfVWDPs
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) June 30, 2019
General Luis Rodríguez Bucio, commander of the National Guard, said there should be “prudent” short-term expectations, but “in the medium and long term expectations are of the highest level.” 
“Our big challenge remains the short term. We need a lot more elements in the National Guard, and that’s not achieved overnight. They have to have a training process,” said the Secretary of Citizen Security and Civil Protection, Alfonso Durazo.
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The National Guard aims to combat the escalation of violence in the country and has capacities for prevention, research and immigration control.
However, the government has not yet transparent the details about the training courses and evaluation processes of its elements.
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In addition, information published by Animal Político details that although the National Guard has since last May a law delimiting its functions and organization, it requires a regulation that lands the provisions, which has not been issued to date.
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