Calderon said that it was not yet time to withdraw the army from the streets
Mexico, 20 mar (EFE) .- The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, who since taking office in December 2006 ordered the militaresencabezar the fight against organized crime, said esmomento today not to withdraw the army from the streets.
The president, who led the delivery of the annual report of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), said the vueltade the military to the barracks is not is possible at this time, the absence of a trained police to fight crimenorganizado.
He said he agrees with the position of chairman of the NHRC, Joseluis Soberanes, that the task of Armed Forces and you are temporary.
live from Mexico three years ago a wave of violence atribuidaal crime, particularly drug cartels vie for control of cheese routes to States United, a period in which they have been killed around 10,000 people.
Calderon has as its main challenge elcombate internal security and organized crime, which ordered the dispatch of thousands of soldiers fuerzascombinadas Federal agents and the points masconflictivos the country, has been criticized as Mexican and international social pororganizaciones.
The president said that compared to the violence of estabala disjunctive or leave the Mexican state and its fate deindefension action against violent crime or take lafuerza State with the risks involved in this alternative.
announced during the event, as a sample the action of the army, the capture of an alleged drug trafficker, Sigifredo Najera, alias El Canicon, whom he blamed for the deaths of nine militaresy of grenade attacks and firing in the United States consulate and television facilities, everything happened Monterreyentre in October 2008 and January.
For his part, chairman of the NHRC said that during a live picture of 2008Mexico marked chiaroscuro on Human Rights, as progress was made but also shadow fade dificilesde.
In this context, the human right to public safety and demand remains the main concern of Mexicans, dijoSoberanes.
indicated that the NHRC recorded 6004 complaints last year porpresuntas human rights violations, most lascuales directed against the Ministry of Defense (1,230), the Institute Mexicano del Seguro Social (1007) and the Attorney General (769 ). EFE