The Partido Accion Nacional bloc in the Congreso de la Union Camara de Diputados is attempting to introduce legislation that would modify the upper chamber Camara de Senadores' minute that reformed the National Security Law and was left pending after the last period of sessions, Reforma reported Thursday.

If successful, the initiative will support President Felipe Calderon's efforts to strengthen the Mexican army's institution and their efforts against crime.

A PAN news release commented on the initiative, "We the members of the PAN congressional group assume our duty of providing laws to the various government institutions to allow them to combat effectively the different types of crime. Our struggle and conviction are based on legislation that serves as meeting point between prevention and fundamental rights. Crime should be fought while respecting human rights."

PAN's proposed reforms to Mexico's National Security Law are aimed at tightening definitions of the role of the armed forces and would provide penalties for those who violate them, a concern over significant corruption of the country's military by Mexico's increasingly powerful drug cartels.

As regards Mexico's drug war, the wide-ranging legislation would also provide for improvements along with legal reforms to combat illicit trafficking of arms, explosives and ammunition along with matters associated with kidnapping by providing expanded legal options for its prevention and investigation.

PAN, of Mexico's three main political parties, is a conservative and Christian Democratic party. Since the 2000 elections the president of Mexico has been a member of PAN. While both the Camara de Diputados and Camara de Senadores have PAN pluralities, the party does not have a majority in either chamber. In the 2006 legislative elections PAN won 206 out of 500 seats in the Camara de Diputados and 52 out of 128 Camara de Senadores positions.

U.S. law enforcement agencies strongly support increased Mexican legislative efforts against the country's rising drug trade, whose cartels have increased their influence since the disruption of Colombia's Cali and Medellin cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States; Mexican and U.S. arrests of key Tijuana and Gulf cartels have increased drug violence in Mexican states along the border with the United States as the criminal organizations fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States.

Since Calderon took office in December 2006 and ordered the country's armed forces to combat the cartels, the rising violence has killed more than 28,000 people.

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