Not the Supreme Court's Job

Jorge Luis Sierra, one of Mexico's most informed analysts on military issues, says that the Supreme Court shouldn't take on the issue of the armed forces' fuero. Instead, he says that Congress should address the impunity deriving from the Code of Military Justice, which was passed in 1933 by decree of President Abelardo Rodríguez (Congress had been dissolved). According to Sierra, the Code's provision that soldiers who commit violations against Mexicans during domestic security operations be tried by military courts is unconstitutional, and Congress should have changed it long ago.