While navy operational control could help some security issues, experts don’t believe it will resolve other problems. López Obrador left the guard under a civilian department but with a military operational chief. But the legal consequences of the move remain unclear.Įarlier this year, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that the transfer of the National Guard from civilian to military control was unconstitutional. The Mexico City takeover runs contrary to international aviation recommendations that clearly distinguish between military and civilian, said Rogelio Rodríguez Garduño, an aviation law expert at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. And by the end of this year, the military is scheduled to begin operating its own commercial airline. López Obrador has already said that he plans to have a dozen airports in the hands of the army or navy by the end of his administration in 2024. Among them will be Matamoros, across the border from Texas, and Playa del Carmen on the Gulf of Mexico. The navy will form a company called Casiopea to run the airport and six others that have “deficiencies” and are “in the hands of organized crime,” Velázquez Tiscareño said. that govern with more order and discipline,” Velázquez Tiscareño said.
The rest of the airport personnel will be civilians but “with clearer rules.
Unlike the capital’s other airport, Felipe Angeles, where National Guard troops take passenger tickets at the gate, at Benito Juarez the only uniformed military are the 1,500 marines deployed since February 2022 for security.
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