Review of regulations after fatal cases
Given the death of a 13-year-old girl in a private militarized school, Senator Guadalupe Chavira announced that the Senate will review the Regulations for Private Military-Type Academies, in force since 1943. The legislator described the ordinance as anachronistic and incompatible with the current protection of children’s rights.
The regulations allow military instruction from primary to technical levels, including shooting classes in secondary school and the use of grades that grant authority to certain students over others. Chavira pointed out that these are not isolated cases; In 2025, another 13-year-old minor died at the Ollin Militarized Academy, in Morelos, after suffering serious abuse during a camp.
“The tragedy that occurred with Dafne, whose suffocation under water is being investigated, should call us to reflection and action. These schools do not have the power to organize summer camps or to authorize practices such as hazing, which ended in the death of a 13-year-old girl,” declared the senator.
The Ministry of Public Education (SEP) reported that the academy where the case occurred was operating with a 2022 incorporation agreement. After being closed for investigations, the school resumed online classes claiming the students’ right to continue their training. The agency faces at least eight additional complaints of mistreatment.
Chavira demanded a new legal framework that grants the SEP clear regulatory powers, since the 1943 regulation leaves responsibility to the Secretariat of National Defense. Specialists warn that in these private schools discipline is imposed through violence and hierarchical submission, unlike official schools where there are human rights areas and supervision of the CNDH.




