THE (IN) TEMPORARY MILITARIZATION OF PUBLIC SECURITY IN MEXICO: TENSION BETWEEN SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

In Mexico, the Constitution has been reformed to temporarily authorize the actions of the Armed
Forces in the work of the Police in peacetime. On this basis, on 11 May 2020, the Presidential Decree
ordering the participation of the Army in public security work throughout the country was issued for
up to a period of 5 years. The investigation demonstrates through an analytical method that the Army's
public security efforts are unfortunately in the light of the criteria of the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights and the Supreme Court of the Nation a constitutional normality of a transient nature in Mexico.
In this context, an important challenge for democratic institutions is to defend the fundamental
freedoms of the citizen from possible excesses by the power of constitutional reform. This leads us
to conclude that the absence of a constitutional identity of a liberal court that builds a coto vetoed to
that power of reform, further guaranteed by an institution legitimized to control it, is a threat to human
rights in Mexico.