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Security & Strategic Review - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Army desertions on a steady decline
The number of soldiers deserting every year from the Mexican army has been declining steadily after having peaked at 16,641 in 2007: in the 15 months to end-March this year it had shrunk to a fifth of that peak level. This emerges from our analysis of the latest data disclosed by the defence ministry (Sedena), which shows that the total number of deserters since the beginning of President Felipe Calderón’s administration (2006) has risen to 56,886 — of whom 42% remain at large, while of those who surrendered or were arrested, fewer than a third were tried and convicted.
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