Alejandro Madrazo Lajous D. in law from Yale University, he is a Full-Time Professor-Researcher at CIDE Central Region in Aguascalientes. In 2013 he founded there the Drug Policy Program, which he coordinated until July 2017, when he left the position to accept a research stay at the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights Law, Yale Law School, in the United States where he is currently located. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers, Level II. He has litigated cases of public interest before the Supreme Court, among them the challenge of the Televisa Law, resolved in 2007; the defense of the decriminalization of the interruption of pregnancy, resolved in 2008; the defense of the Law for the protection of non-smokers in Mexico City, resolved in 2009; and egalitarian marriage, resolved in 2010. He is the author of Revelation and Creation. The theological foundations of legal dogmatics published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2016.

Discrepancias

Discrepancies around the Internal Security Law

  • Alejandro Madrazo Lajous
  • Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso
  • Salvador Maldonado

  • moderator Manuela Camus Bergareche

In December 2006, the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, declared the “war against drugs” and called out the Army to confront criminal groups in the streets. This public security task does not correspond specifically to the functions of the Armed Forces and, among other consequences, has led to a disproportionate increase in homicides and disappearances in the country. Despite this, the Internal Security Law is presented, which institutionalizes this militarization process and justifies, regulates and legalizes the role of the armed forces in the fight against organized crime. There are many questions that arise in this context and we hope that the guests of this Discrepancies section will contribute to animate the debate, perhaps to clarify it.