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Special Report - The military as police: a balance sheet (ISSN 17414474)
President gets free hand to deploy military
The last constraint on deploying the military on internal security missions was removed in August 2014, when congress amended the defence law to allow the President to do so ‘to confront any form of aggression, internal or external, that might endanger the sovereignty, independence or territorial integrity of the country.’ This was approved by congress after the most recent attack by the guerrillas of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP), which has been active in the northern departments of Concepción and San Pedro since 2008.
- Executive summary
- Under Peña Nieto the military remain in the field
- Extensive use of the military on two fronts
- More troops deployed as violence rebounds after ‘truce’
- Level of violence declines but is still high
- New special units to bolster mass troop deployment
- President gets free hand to deploy military
- One state of emergency after another
- Relying on Carabineros to face two threats
- Military kept out of internal security
- Almost complete militarisation
- Allowing ‘preventive’ use of armed forces
- Trying to assess effects