translated from Spanish: CNDH records 32 National Guard complaint files

In 2019, the CNDH registered at least 32 complaint files for alleged national rights violations in the first five months of its operation.
In a response to a request for information, the case of complaints filed from July to November last year was detailed, without any to date resulting in a recommendation for the Guard, a corporation established by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with the aim of reducing insecurity.
Of the 32 files opened by the CNDH to analyse the cases, 4 have already been completed. Three of them gave guidance to complaints (in these cases, it is noted that the complaint is not the responsibility of the Commission, but is legally directed at the person submitting it), and in one of them the Commission established that there was no matter of supporting the case.
As for the remaining 28, 6 files still under analysis are on the charge that the National Guard allegedly committed actions and omissions that violate the rights of migrants.
One is registered on July 4, 2019, in Chihuahua; the following, the registration date of 15 July 2019, in Chiapas; the third case was registered on 30 July 2019 in Coahuila.
The fourth case was registered on 10 September 2019 in Chiapas. The fifth, on September 25, 2019, in Veracruz, and the sixth on November 11, 2019, in Chiapas.
Chiapas was the state that recorded the most cases of alleged violations of the Guard’s rights, with three.
After U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexico in May, Lopez Obrador’s administration tightened its immigration policy and deployed the National Guard to contain migrants, most of them Central American.
City organizations accused the federal government of criminalizing migration, and of subjecting theself to Trump’s pressures.
Alleged arbitrary detention and torture
Three files of alleged arbitrary detentions, attributed to the National Guard, are recorded in the list provided by the CNDH. The cases were in Sonora, Puebla and Jalisco.
On 29 October 2019, the Commission recorded the complaint file against the National Guard for alleged torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in the state of Jalisco.
President López Obrador, in his speeches, mentioned that the National Guard receives human rights training, and stressed that his government seeks to eradicate abuses by any security corporation.
Different groups have criticized the Guard, noting that the corporation has maintained the militarization of public security.
From January 2007 to June 2017, the period in which the so-called war on drugs was applied, the Armed Forces (FAM), the Army and navy were the security institutions that incurred the most serious human rights violations, such as torture, disappearances and executions, a study by the Mexican Commission on the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) said.
In that period, the CNDH issued 204 recommendations for serious rights violations.
Of that figure, 148 were responsible for the Armed Forces: in 113 cases the Army, and in 38 the Navy. For the Federal Police there were 46 recommendations, for state police 21, and for municipal police 14.
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