The federal government redirected the dispatch of federal forces with the objective of protecting the population and their property in Culiacán, Sinaloa; Frontera, Comalapa, Chiapas; the lemon production area in Michoacán, and on federal highways where there is a high incidence of robbery of transporters.
This was reported by the Secretary of Public and Citizen Security, Omar García Harfuch, during the morning conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum, dedicated to security.
As part of the National Security Strategy of the first 100 days of the current government, intelligence activities and inter-institutional coordination were increased, through the reorientation of 246 thousand troops belonging to the National Guard and the armed forces, with the objective of directing efforts to the cities with the highest crime rate.
Through a video broadcast at Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning conference, it was reported that the security cabinet identified the areas with the highest incidence of crime to concentrate efforts on them during these first 100 days of government.
Special attention to Culiacán and Comalapa
The 10 priority municipalities in the country were detected, and special attention was given to Culiacán, Sinaloa, which is suffering a wave of violence from the internal struggle of criminal groups, which were not mentioned, but are “Los Mayos” against “Los Chapitos”, after the patriarch of the former, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, was kidnapped, allegedly at the hands of the latter.
Another municipality in emergency due to violence is Comalapa, Chiapas due to social conflicts. The government also reoriented the sending of security elements there.
The presence of criminal groups that affect the production and marketing of lemon in Michoacán is also being combated, and theft from transporters on federal highways is being avoided.
Chiapas will have intelligence and measures with a social perspective
Regarding Chiapas, President Claudia Sheinbaum explained that her government has also begun to design a scheme to be able to intervene from a social perspective.
“Chiapas is a state with many needs and it is not only a strategy with security forces but with a social perspective,” explained the president.
She reported that it will be from November when the process begins in the state, with measures such as the installation of a welfare center in Tapachula. The objective is that there is investment for development in such a way that jobs are generated on the border for both men and women from Chiapas, as well as for migrants.
Another objective is for the Trans-Isthmus Train to reach the state and it could even be extended to Guatemala.
A third action is to reinforce the intelligence work that is being carried out in Chiapas.
Two security initiatives will be sent to Congress
For his part, the Secretary of Public and Citizen Security, Omar García Harfuch, announced that two initiatives will be sent to the Legislative Branch. These are two reforms to article 21 and the Law of the National System of Investigation in Public Security Matters, to strengthen the planning and coordination capacities and improve the investigative and intelligence powers of the SSPC.
The agency also seeks to collaborate with the Attorney General’s Offices of the Republic, local police and organs of the Judicial Branch of the Federation and states for the preparation of the investigation files.
The figures on crime
Marcela Figueroa, executive secretary of the National System of Public Security, released the report on the incidence of crime from January 1 to October 28, the official recognizes that intentional homicides have increased in Sinaloa between September and October.
Figueroa said that at the national level the tendency of intentional homicide and feminicide was downward since the last administration; However, gunshot wounds have seen a sharp increase, as well as an upward trend in extortion.
The executive secretary of the National Security System pointed out that Guanajuato, Baja California, the State of Mexico, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Guerrero and Nuevo Leon account for 49.8% of the country’s intentional homicides.
Human rights are not systematically violated: Sedena
The head of the National Defense Secretariat, Ricardo Trevilla, was present at the morning conference. He was asked about the cases of civilians who have died at the hands of the military in confrontations with organized crime and about the attack on October 7 against a young man in Culiacán, recorded on video in which soldiers can be heard saying “kill him, kill him.”
The military responded that when that happens, the Attorney General’s Office and the state Attorney’s Offices are immediately notified. In addition, investigations are carried out at the military level.
But it is not the authority’s responsibility to disseminate the progress of the investigations, but rather the attorney’s offices themselves, he added.
“Human rights are not systematically violated. There are times when there are wounded people, where the same military personnel assist them or evacuate them to the hospital facilities that exist and the detainees are immediately made available to the public prosecutors. That is how we act, systematically there is no instruction to act outside the law,” he emphasized.
For his part, the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, stated that there is not a single case of confrontation between civilians and military personnel in which an investigation has not been opened and even several military personnel are in prison because of it.
Source: lasillarota
