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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 16 March 2018

Latest Mexican intervention smacks of desperation

The failure of the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto to employ a coherent and coordinated strategy to arrest the deterioration in public security in Mexico was laid bare this week. Federal forces were ordered into Tlaquepaque, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, the country’s second-largest city, to disarm the municipal police. No arrests were made. Instead the municipal police officers have been compelled to undergo re-evaluation en masse, followed by training, because of suspicion that the local force had been infiltrated by organised crime. This followed a sharp increase in the homicide rate in Tlaquepaque amid a brutal turf war involving the country’s most violent drug trafficking organisation (DTO), the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).

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