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Security & Strategic Review - March 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Disengagement – or more of the same?
Public statements in March by two of the most senior members of Mexico’s defence community, interior minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong and defence minister General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, appeared to imply that some kind of scaling down of the federal police and military campaign against organised crime and drug trafficking was being considered. Osorio Chong said federal forces would be withdrawing from some states; Cienfuegos said it had been a mistake to deploy the armed forces to combat the drug cartels. But a closer examination of their comments, and of recent developments, leads to a different interpretation – in essence, that nothing has really changed.
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