The reforms proposed by Sheinbaum: militarization and corporatization of the old State

We share an unofficial translation of an article by Periódico Mural.

Searching mothers and families, search groups, organizations, and individuals in solidarity have issued an important statement rejecting the reactionary reforms pushed by the presidency. The reason for this is that “it fails to address the crisis of missing persons and aims to impose a system of mass surveillance that is useless in the search for our missing relatives and could be dangerous to the safety of everyone in Mexico. “

But what reforms are these?

Reforms to the General Population Law: creating a “mandatory biometric CURP” that includes fingerprints, facial scans, iris scans, electronic signatures, and voice patterns.

Reforms to the General Law on Enforced Disappearances of Persons and the National System for the Search for Persons: creating a “Single Identity Platform” that tracks every movement people make in their daily lives.

Reforms to the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration: granting legal powers for intelligence work on a massive and unrestricted scale to the armed forces: Army, Air Force, Navy, and National Guard.

In addition, other measures are proposed such as:

Laws on the National Investigation and Intelligence System and the National Public Security System that allow for the restoration of a national registry of mobile phone users (once promoted by the PAN governments) and the creation of a centralized database with information on the entire population, managed by the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection.

Constitutionally, these reforms proposed by Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo violate the principle of the inviolability of privacy and the right to the inviolability of private communications as an autonomous right with its own scope of protection. In other words, they are all unconstitutional.

But the problem is not simply legal; at its core, it reveals the deepening of the militarization and corporatization of the old State, and these two components can only lead—as a historical lesson—to the rise of fascism to power.

The “new times” that Mexico is experiencing, where we observe the centralization of power in the hands of the Executive and the absolute subordination of the Legislative and Judicial branches (today all in the hands of the ruling party), actually remind us of the “old days” when the ruling party (PNR-PRM-PRI) was in fact the sole State party that controlled everything in a corporate and despotic manner.

There’s no doubt that the self-proclaimed “fourth transformation” describes the single-party ‘s evolution throughout its history, and teaches us that the PRI is neither born nor destroyed, it merely transforms, and today it is PRI-MOR.

Read the statement from the searching mothers and families.