Venezuela, a “mirror” of militarization in Mexico, according to specialists

Venezuela allowed the military to take public administration positions in the country with the aim of assigning them tasks in the civil sphere in 1999. With this, the Armed Forces had the opportunity to participate in the construction of infrastructure, health operations and distribution of social aid. .

Another country that found itself under the same juncture it was Venezuela, where Mexico could find “a mirror” about the consequences of the militarization of the country, said the lawyer and security expert Rocío San Miguel told Process

This is a matter of which “Mexicans must be vigilant, because when a government gives praetorian support, military support, to its public policies, to its social policies, it ends up partisaning the armed forces.”

Venezuela allowed the military to take public administration positions in the country with the aim of assigning them tasks in the civil sphere in 1999. With this, The Armed Forces had the opportunity to participate in the construction of infrastructure, health operations, and the distribution of social assistance.

As a result, the weekly recalled, there was one of the largest cases of corruption in the Latin American country, where Víctor Cruz Weffer, operational chief of Plan Bolívar 2000.

Currently, the journalist points out Rafael croda, the Venezuelan military already occupy a quarter of the ministries, the third in the governorates and have more than a dozen councils and a hundred industrial and self-service conglomerates.

San Miguel also stressed that it would be Praetorianism in government, that is, the invasive participation of the military in civil institutions and their use in political projects.

If this is applied in areas such as public security, social aid distribution, infrastructure construction “It ends up damaging the armed force itself and society, and opens a route for the militarization of civilian spaces.”

This is what would have happened in Venezuela after allowing the intrusion of the armed forces “to solve current political problems.”

In January 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador strengthened the militarization process in Mexico with 30 tasks assigned to the Army plus other missions to the Marine Secretary, together with the Public Security functions that the Armed Forces began to operate in 2006.

It was On August 24, 2018, as president-elect, López Obrador qualified his campaign promise to return the Armed Forces (Armed Forces) to their barracks

The Tabasco He argued that the Sedena and Navy commanders had offered him a diagnosis of security in Mexico. He added that interviewing them was essential to know what worked and what was discarded, in addition, that it would be irresponsible to withdraw the soldiers immediately, because the local police were not working.

Although then stressed that the presence of the military would be transitory, while a National Guard (GN), Mexicans did not know that this period would extend, once again, throughout the six-year term.

These tasks include the construction of four airports, three sections of the Mayan Train, the construction of the National Guard and the branches of the Banco de Bienestar.