Overview
- Lawmakers approved 201 promotions in the Army, Air Force and National Guard and 113 in the Navy, all issued by President Claudia Sheinbaum and set to take effect on November 20.
- The Navy slate passed with 85 votes in favor and 3 abstentions, and the Defense slate passed with 97 in favor and 4 abstentions.
- Naval promotions include 3 to admiral, 8 to vice admiral, 31 to rear admiral and 71 to captain of the ship.
- Senate presenters highlighted advances in inclusion, noting 8 women among the naval promotions and 12 among the Defense promotions.
- Movimiento Ciudadano’s Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas condemned the fast-track process after Interior sent the files less than 24 hours earlier, citing the September arrest of Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna in a fiscal fuel-theft case as a warning.