Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“What an entrance. On Tuesday, or only a week after she became Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo sent her security czar to walk the streets of Culiacan. The city is the epicenter of a murderous struggle between two factions of a giant drug cartel in the state of Sinaloa. By his mere presence in one of Mexico’s most violent cities, Omar Garcia Harfuch, the new secretary for federal public safety, was sending a nuanced message: Just as Mexico was able to make progress as a democracy in recent decades, it is now improving its approach to defeating organized crime. Mr. Garcia, a former police officer, was in Culiacan to show that President Sheinbaum plans to deploy some tactics that are different from those of her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.” (10/09/24)