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Weekly Report - 22 November 2018 (WR-18-46)

MEXICO: Supreme court serves warning to López Obrador

The very day after President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented his public security strategy, Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) ruled that the internal security law of the outgoing government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto was unconstitutional. The law, which was approved by congress at the end of last year, essentially perpetuates the military’s policing role in public security. The SCJN ruled that the law clashed with the constitution in spirit and substance. So that López Obrador’s security reform does not end up before the SCJN, and suffer the same fate, he is aiming to reform the constitution to remove the lexical padlocks preventing the permanent involvement of the armed forces in a public security role.

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