Mexico Moves to Renovate its Navy

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, January 16, 2006

Mexico Moves to Renovate its Navy
By Barnard R. Thompson

During the first week of January 2006, Mexican President Vicente Fox sent a reform initiative to Congress that will bring the Mexican Navy up to speed administratively with the already important role it is playing in the Western Hemisphere. Guidelines, rules and regulations that will more clearly spell out the navy’s role in not only safeguarding the nation and its resources while watching over maritime and coastal activities, but too its part in combating potential terrorism, narcotics trafficking, gunrunning, people smuggling and other crimes.

The proposal was immediately sent to the Navy Committee of the Chamber of Deputies for analysis.

In order to strengthen the Secretariat of the Navy, as well as naval forces and operations, Fox is first calling for revisions to Mexico’s Organic Law of Federal Public Administration. Article 30 of that law governs the Secretariat of the Navy, and it currently includes 19 points that outline the areas of responsibility and involvement of the ministry and those it commands.

Admiral Marco Antonio Peyrot González is Mexico’s Secretary of the Navy, and in a recent newspaper interview he noted that the Regulations of the Mexican Navy, that were last modified in 1976, are also out of date. Those too will be reformed and modernized, once Article 30 of the aforementioned law is amended.
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Monday, 16 January 2006


Mexico to tap phones on all major networks

Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI) is teaming up with the US State Department to deploy a nationwide electronic surveillance system in Mexico, to enable the AFI to monitor phone conversations and online messages from every telecoms network in the country. According to online news site Narcosphere, the system is designed to help prevent ‘acts of major federal crimes in Mexico that include narcotics trafficking and terrorism’.
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1. Do they have permission from the U.S.?

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