The Security Crisis Testing Mexico’s Sheinbaum
By
Denise Dresser
Recent killings in Michoacán are pressing the government to redefine its security strategy.
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, faces perhaps the most critical political-security challenge of her term: the explosion of violence in Michoacán, not as an isolated flare-up, but as a theater of systemic breakdown. In less than two weeks, a young charismatic leader of the lemon growers’ association was gunned down, and days after, a popular mayor of the town of Uruapan was assassinated, shot in broad daylight during Day of the Dead festivities on November 2. Both men had sounded alarms about criminal groups’ deep entrenchment in agricultural supply chains,...
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