Violence has gotten out of control in Mexico. Claudia Sheinbaum wants to end it in three steps

For too long, there has been a problem with violence in Mexico. Organized crime is so influential in some parts of the country that there are Mayan ruins inaccessible due to violence. They want to make reforms in the justice system, but there is a fear that it will open doors for criminals to finance candidacies. And it is so ingrained that there are many companies who claim that these organizations control much of their legitimate business.

With the so-called ‘War on Drug Trafficking’, governments have wanted to put an end to the problem, but the figures They were still alarming. Behind him call of López Obrador, now it is Claudia Sheinbaum who has detailed her security plan to eradicate violence in Mexico.

“New” crisis of violence. When we talk about “crisis of violence”, we must specify. The problem is that it does not seem that the crisis has gone away at some point in the last decade and, with a new government that has not yet been in power for a month, there are parties that expose that, in that period, 1,000 homicides have occurred. It is far from the 200,000 of López Obrador’s six-year term.

There have been several striking cases, but among them we must talk about the mayors from Guerrero and Oaxaca. Alejandro Arcos, recently elected mayor of Guerrero, was beheaded a few days ago. Román Ruiz, local mayor of the state of Oaxaca, was also stabbed in his home. These are two cases among many that have occurred recently, especially since the detention of capo Ismael “Mayo” Zambada a few weeks ago.

Claudia Sheinbaum. Since October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum is the President of the United Mexican States. During this time, the president has made announcements such as the deployment/opening of 3,000 new kilometers of railway lines, a strong commitment to solar energy and, after Elon Musk’s rejection of the gigafactory in Mexico, the commitment to a 100% electric car. % Mexican.

And, among those intentions, is that of reducing violence. In the “morning conference”, which is the talk with the press in which issues of public interest will be debated, Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security, and the president have commented the four pillars of the action plan to fight violence.

Causes. The first is to address the causes, see why young people leave school and combat crime through social policy. For this, she is based on an action plan that she already put in place when she was mayor of Mexico City: “if the young man was not going to school, we would take him. If he does not have a university or a job, we would find him.”

Thus, the intention is that young people have something to do and have training, since this way they are less likely to choose to enter crime. Sheinbaum commented that young people join criminal groups due to lack of economic resources, lack of a social and cultural identity and lack of education or employment, something that the government can address through social policies.

National guard. Within that plan, the idea of ​​consolidating the National Guard also comes into play. With the dismantling of the Federal Police during AMLO’s mandate (due to accusations of corruption and ties to organized crime), the National Guard became the alternative for areas and tasks that the police cannot handle.

It is a controversial organization because they are very present in the streets and there are those who believe that a soldier should not have public order functions, but the new government will maintain its functions stating that there is no militarization and that what they will do is ” take advantage of the capabilities of the Secretary of Defense so that the National Guard is consolidated.”

Intelligence. The idyllic objective of law enforcement is to get ahead of crimes. Sheinbaum and Harfuch consider that it is important that the information is treated in the best possible way to fight against impunity, something that occurs in 90% of crimes in Mexico.

Here, the plan is to fight against security breaches within Mexico’s own infrastructure and “not only react to crimes, but anticipate them through the use of intelligence and the most advanced technological resources,” said Harfuch. The roadmap, according to him, is to “analyze data, identify patterns and understand the dynamics that occur in the areas with the most incidents.”

Coordination. And, to try to bring all this to fruition, the government will create two divisions: the Undersecretary of Intelligence and a Security Academy for police and prosecutors. “Security is a problem that requires shared responsibility and a unified response,” said Harfuch, and one of the first measures will be to mobilize federal authorities to Culiacán, where there is a real battle between the two factions of the Sinaloa cartel after the detention in the United States of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

Among the criticisms of Sheinbaum’s plan to end violence at the national level, there are voices that point out that putting these measures into practice at the local level – what happened in CDMX – is not the same as at the state level, where the security forces security have less influence. In addition, there are also specific criticisms that suggest that the root of these problems is not that untrained young people join the groups, but rather political and police corruption.

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