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August 25, 2022

Is López Obrador’s Security Strategy Failing in Mexico?

A recent spate of violence in Mexico has led critics to question President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s security strategy. // File Photo: Mexican Government.

Q

  • In violent rampages this month in northern Mexico, gang members killed at least 11 people in Ciudad Juárez and set some 20 vehicles on fire and blocked roads in Tijuana and Mexicali. These incidents followed other eruptions of violence in Mexico’s Jalisco and Guanajuato states, where gang members torched vehicles and businesses and were involved in shootouts with security forces. What are the reasons behind the flare-up in violence in Mexico? How effective is President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s security strategy, and why have authorities been unable to significantly reduce Mexico’s homicide levels? How effective is Mexico’s use of the military for domestic policing, and what would be achieved by López Obrador’s possible move to put the National Guard under the control of the army?

A

Nicolás Mariscal, member of the Advisor board and chairman of Grupo Marhnos in Mexico City: “The national media was alarmed at the recent string of violence with due reason. Nevertheless, it reported events as part of a national story, when each had its local causes. As Alejandro Hope wrote in a recent article, the attacks in Ciudad Juárez were intended to create chaos to better assault particular people; in Jalisco and Guanajuato, there was a failed attempt to capture leaders of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel; and in Baja California, attacks against public transportation were due to extortion practices. The good news is homicide levels have plateaued; the bad news is they have plateaued at very high levels. In the past, there were serious institution-building efforts in the security apparatus, notably with the Federal Police. Nevertheless…”

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