MyNorthwest

News

Opinion

Sports

Tools

Connect

Mexico’s Senate votes to hand over National Guard to army

Demonstrators march on Reforma Avenue towards the senate to protest the president's proposal to move the nominally civilian National Guard under the operational and administrative control of the Defense Ministry, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The proposal passed Mexico's lower chamber last week and has raised concerns about the militarization of Mexico's security. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

FILE - Members of Mexico's National Guard march in the Independence Day military parade, in the capital's main plaza, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Sept. 16, 2019. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has begun exploring plans to side-step congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army. That has raised concerns, because Lopez Obrador won approval for creating the force in 2019 by pledging in the constitution that it would be under nominal civilian control and that the army would be off the streets by 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

FILE - Peru's President Pedro Castillo, wearing the presidential sash, leaves Congress on his inauguration day, in Lima, Peru, July 28, 2021. In just over one year as president, Castillo has survived two congressional votes to oust him, named more than 60 ministers to the 19 agencies that make up his cabinet, confronted six preliminary investigations for accusations ranging from influence peddling to plagiarism, and recently saw a close relative imprisoned. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez, File)

Mexico’s Senate votes to hand over National Guard to army