Mexican Senate Votes to Put National Guard Under Military Control

Mexico’s National Guard will come under the rule of the armed forces after the country’s Senate approved a constitutional reform which had been pushed by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Critics of the legislation say it would give the military too much power over law and order in Mexico. Luis Donaldo Colosio, a 39-year-old senator from the opposition Citizens’ Movement party, said the reforms would normalize the idea only the military could restore peace, and law and order in Mexico. ‘Not The Peace Of Justice’ He said, “It is not the peace of justice.” Colosio’s father, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, was a presidential candidate who was assassinated at an election rally in Tijuana in 1994, an incident which remains clouded by mystery and conspiracy theories....