The costs of militarization: In Guerrero, president of Congress abused by army

I've driven through many military checkpoints in Guerrero state and been pulled over by a couple, but thankfully never experienced this: Faustino Soto Ramos, until recently a federal deputy and now president of the state congress of Guerrero, says soldiers abused him verbally, fired their weapons in the ground to scare him, and hit him a few times, in front of his own vehicle. As the legislator noted,

"If the president of the Congress is treated like this, imagine ordinary citizens."