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Special Report - The military as police: a balance sheet (ISSN 17414474)
Military kept out of internal security
Since the restoration of elected rule in Argentina in 1983 much emphasis has been placed on maintaining the constitutional separation of military and police roles, which effectively bans the use of the armed forces for internal security missions. Recent calls for making an exception for antidrugs operations were rejected from across the political spectrum.
- 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