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Security & Strategic Review - April 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO-US: Upward trend in US military training
When Admiral William Gortney, head of the US Northern Command (Northcom), told Congress last month that the demand for training for the Mexican armed forces had been rising rapidly over the past three years, eyebrows were raised in Mexico’s political and media circles. The Mexican government does not hide the fact that it avails itself of the training opportunities, but it does not trumpet it either. Most of the information about this is readily available in the US, but few Mexicans have been looking.
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