Authoritarian regimes have sought to disguise the violation of human rights above state reasons as national security. While discussed in Congress an amendment to the Homeland Security Act strongly questioned by civil society and human rights groups, the telecommunications sector would receive the slogan certainly cooperate unreservedly with the preservation and delivery of information on communications that flow through public telecommunications networks.
What seemed part of Mexico's dark past enforced disappearances by the state, has returned perhaps more strongly in recent years as has been reported by international agencies. Remember that enforced disappearances involving the deprivation of liberty of a person by state agents, persons or groups acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the state, followed by the state's refusal to acknowledge the deprivation or the whereabouts of the person, removing thus the protection of the law. What this solves the state Security Act initiative? Nothing. What improvement over the fight against impunity and corruption? Nothing. So what this reform? Should never be allowed in Mexico warrant measures that endanger the respect of human rights under national security or supposedly peace. Peace is not achieved through violence.
President Felipe Calderón and the Congress continue to think as in the past, ie to make laws as if by magic to settle the situation or at least distract the attention of the public. But citizenship seeks to live in peace with respect for human rights, not a "peace" in breach them, nor do we want more rhetoric, no ads on the radio that the federal government has arrested so and so suspect the commission of who-knows-how many crimes, or that X number of tons seized drugs. Citizenship does not have information on how many criminals of organized crime there, or how many tons of drugs circulating in our country every month. Then say they have arrested 300 suspects (we will see if they become ultimately guilty or are released by procedural errors) and seized 1 million tons of drugs, is a smokescreen intended to surprise the unsuspecting, but fails the test of a government that is scores with objective indicators.
In 2009 it was announced with great fanfare that to combat kidnapping and other crimes, would establish the National Register of Mobile Phone Users. This caused costs to telecommunications dealers, nuisance and based on privacy concerns of users of mobile services, and expenditures from the Federal Treasury. Has served for something Renaut? Do you have reduced the kidnappings, or at least they managed to clear in less time? What has been the real benefit to the people of this country? The Federal Government has been remiss in providing figures, which certainly is a recognition of what citizenship thinks Renaut is a failure.
In 2010 it issued the General Law on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of kidnapping and other laws were reformed, including the Federal Telecommunications Act. This act established the possibility of private communications, as well as provide private communications as an exception. Additionally, dealers are forced telecommunications to collaborate to restrict telecom services within the prisons. The problem is not the restriction of the signals, but corruption within the social rehabilitation centers that allow the entry of equipment to receive signals. Then for more laws to be issued if not attacked root of the problem of impunity and corruption, just continue with the escalation of violence to the detriment of citizens who do not have the security team of President Calderon or the Secretary of the Interior. From the desks of public servants and lawmakers is easy to assemble speeches and laws that ultimately do not resolve the problem, while Mexico is experiencing a kind of invasive cancer appears that only a miracle could stop.
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