Mexico's security chief quietly forms an elite force to take on the drug cartels
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President Claudia Sheinbaum had already shown a willingness early in her presidency to move away from former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s oft-criticized “hugs, not bullets” strategy. It focused on addressing the social roots of crime rather than directly confronting Mexico’s powerful cartels.
Sheinbaum’s security chief, Omar García Harfuch, is drawing on his law enforcement contacts — mostly from the former ranks of the Federal Police — to claw back security capabilities from the armed forces with a civilian force under his direct command.
The government has yet to formally announce the new National Operations Unit, known by its Spanish initials UNO, but its existence is an open secret among former members of the Federal Police, where García Harfuch started his career.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum had already shown a willingness early in her presidency to move away from former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s oft-criticized “hugs, not bullets” strategy. It focused on addressing the social roots of crime rather than directly confronting Mexico’s powerful cartels.
Sheinbaum’s security chief, Omar García Harfuch, is drawing on his law enforcement contacts — mostly from the former ranks of the Federal Police — to claw back security capabilities from the armed forces with a civilian force under his direct command.
The government has yet to formally announce the new National Operations Unit, known by its Spanish initials UNO, but its existence is an open secret among former members of the Federal Police, where García Harfuch started his career.
That was what the military was for.
That was what the federal police was for.
She gave full support to the previous president on dismantling one of them and tying the hands of the other and bribing them.
Then they created the national guard with the excuse of filling the void they left... But used them for gerrymandering and other crimes instead.
Now they are creating another "elite force" and then what? She talks big to appear competent, if only she and her whole party (which has full power and nepotism everywhere) actually planned leaving the expresident's wishes out of everything, then I could believe they are actually planning on doing something right and not just empty posturing. -
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