Mexico’s Congress approved a law Friday that would give the military a legal framework to act as police, despite unanimous objections from human rights groups.
President Enrique Pena Nieto is expected to sign the bill into law, after the Senate made changes to try to calm fears that army troops could be used to crack down on protests and local authorities would be free of pressure to improve their police. Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party had used its majority in the lower house to quickly approve the Senate’s changes.
The law lets the president to issue a . . .
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