translated from Spanish: ‘They speak in bad faith,’ AMLO tells critics of armed forces decree

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said those who criticize the decree that gives armed forces security tasks “speak in bad faith.”
“I think it lacked information, this that was now done of giving the armed forces authorization to perform public security tasks was approved six months ago in Congress, it was a constitutional reform that all parties approved, and there was a transient issued, it was approved that a decree had to be issued and that was what was done, but there was already the approval of Congress,” he said.
He decreed, he assured, it’s just a formality. “That’s why I’m talking about a lack of information and also in bad faith, they take advantage of everything to question and exaggerate.”
Read: AMLO legalizes military intervention in 12 police duties; NGOs blame a lack of deadlines and controls
Fortunately as we said, people are very, very knowledgeable, very conscious and no longer believe in all those pitched, in slander, they are no longer manipulated, he reiterated.
There are these disinformation campaigns but they don’t work, he said at a press conference.
Why, having the Navy, the Army was not given security to the people, he questioned. “That’s why I sent the reform (…) but it will not be used to suppress the people.”
“May our adversaries reflect things, put aside hatred and think of the general interest, others and others, the Fatherland, the Nation, in Mexico, that they are not mastered by selfishness, bad faith, that they do not harden their hearts that do not alienate materialism, the desire for profit,” he said.
As of May 12, the elements of the Army and Navy can legally perform twelve public safety functions that by definition were the exclusive competence of civilian police in Mexico, ranging from the possibility of making self-detentions, to supervising migratory crossings or participating in operations to “restore order”.
Specialists and civil organizations warned that the presidential agreement does not respect these conditions and instead opens the door to broad intervention by the military in security, without setting clear deadlines, without civil subordination and without external controls.
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