Mexico City. The Senate of the Republic suspended the extraordinary meeting of Commissions scheduled for next Monday the 5th, in which it was planned to authorize the entry into the national territory of special forces of the United States Navy to participate in naval exercises and the departure of elements of the Mexican Navy to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for a similar exercise.
The Navy Commission, chaired by the Morena senator, Carlos Lomelí Bolaños, scheduled that meeting from the last week of December, since the intention of the two requests for the entry and exit of troops, from President Claudia Sheinbaum, so that once approved, they could be voted on in an extraordinary period, on the 13th of this month, but everything was canceled.
The senator of Morena, Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevara, member of the Navy Commission, reported that this afternoon they were notified that the meeting was postponed and “it is an important fact that must be observed”, since the new circumstances, after the military intervention of the United States in Venezuela, the threats that exist, force “we give ourselves a prudent time to address that and other issues.”
Is that meeting for Monday the 25th still scheduled in today’s parliamentary gazette?
-The members of the Navy Commission have already been informed that this meeting is suspended and I consider that it is the most appropriate in this context of geopolitical mobilization. Yes, we are going to analyze this issue so that we have more elements for decision. You have to see how the situation rearranges itself, it is always important to act without acceleration, without rushing.
He did not want to specify if the approval of the two permits is completely canceled, in fact it is heading towards that.
The presidential requests reached the Senate when the work of the last ordinary period had already closed, on December 13, and given that naval training and training begin on January 18, it is necessary to convene this extraordinary session before that date.
For this reason, the president of the Navy Commission, Carlos Lomelí Bolaños, called the extraordinary meeting, for January 5, which would be semi-presential and in which the two opinions had to be approved, with a view to the session of the Permanent Commission, on the 7th of that same month, convening the extraordinary period only in the Senate, since it is its exclusive power to approve the departure of troops from the country, as well as the entry of elements of the Army and the Navy. from other nations.
The federal executive requested authorization to allow the departure of troops from the Mexican Navy, so that they can participate in the event called “Increase the capacity of the Special Operations Unit”, which will take place from January 18 to March 13 of next year at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, United States.
Likewise, President Sheinbaum requests the approval of the Senate to allow personnel from the Navy SEALs and the Seventh Special Forces Group of the United States Navy to enter the national territory to participate in the naval exercise called “Improving the Capacity of the Special Operations Forces”, to be held in three locations.
At the Special Operations Unit Headquarters in Donato Guerra, state of Mexico, at the Marine Infantry Specialized Training Center (CENCAEIM), in Champotón and at the Naval Command in Ciudad del Carmen, both in Campeche.
