Mexico Says Army to Stay in Streets

December 9th, 2016

Via: AFP:

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Friday troops will remain in the streets to combat drug violence after his defense minister issued a rare complaint about the controversial deployment.

Although Pena Nieto acknowledged that the soldiers and marines have been doing law enforcement tasks that “don’t correspond to them in the strictest sense,” he said the armed forces are “determined to continue” policing the streets.

The military deployment has allowed “cities and regions in our country to return to peace and calm,” he said.

Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos said on Thursday that the military “didn’t ask” to be fighting criminals.

“We don’t like it. We didn’t study how to chase criminals,” the general said.

“Our function is something else and it’s been made into something unnatural. We are doing things that don’t correspond to our training because there’s no one else to do them.”

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One Response to “Mexico Says Army to Stay in Streets”

  1. Duros says:

    So while the top cartels have amnesty and basically free reign, they deploy the military against the people?

    Mexico is a good warning/foreshadowing for the US, they’re a few steps ahead of us in the banana republic game.

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