In the early hours of Thursday morning, after two separate sessions of fierce debate that ran over 20 hours, Mexico's lower chamber of Congress passed two laws opening up personal data to the nation's military-run security force.
The Investigation and Intelligence Law and National Public Security System Law were two main pieces of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's security package unveiled on June 9.
The law allows the creation of a National Information System, another set of registries that security institutions will have access to. The registries include national registry of arrests, criminal incidents, court orders, protective measures for women, girls and boys, and stolen and recovered vehicles. The law stipulates that the National Guard will also have access to the system.
"This new reform strengthens the political arm of the Morena cartel, a political organization that administers violence, profits from death and governs like organized criminals," said Institutional Revolutionary Party Congressman Carlos Gutiérrez Mancilla on Wednesday during a speech at the Congress podium.