The new law now fully places the National Guard and its 120,000 troops under the command of the Defense Ministry ...
(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s senate passed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to bring the National Guard under military command, shrugging off warnings that it will give the armed forces ...
Some 80% of its roughly 120,000 members are soldiers. Mexican presidents have long involved the armed forces in public security, especially from 2006 with Felipe Calderón’s “war on drugs”.