In September 2024, Mexico’s legislature quickly approved a series of constitutional reforms at the behest of outgoing ...
(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s senate passed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to bring the National Guard under military command, shrugging off warnings that it will give the armed forces ...
(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s senate passed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to bring the National Guard under military command, shrugging off warnings that it will give the armed forces ...
Some 80% of its roughly 120,000 members are soldiers. Mexican presidents have long involved the armed forces in public security, especially from 2006 with Felipe Calderón’s “war on drugs”.
PANO - Implementing the Defense Foreign Affairs Plan 2024, from October 4 to 13, a high-ranking delegation from the Vietnam ...
The new law now fully places the National Guard and its 120,000 troops under the command of the Defense Ministry ...
The plan, which he called “hugs, not bullets,” coincided with a decline in the mass killings resulting from security forces clashing with armed groups — although recent reports show there ...
Mexican security forces respond at the scene of a crime amid a wave of violence between armed groups Credit: Reuters/Jesus Bustamante The fallout from Zambada’s betrayal on July 25 ...
Hundreds of heavily armed special forces have been deployed in and around Culiacán, Sinaloa, over the past three weeks in which more than 90 people have been killed and another 90 kidnapped ...