In the wake of the Sonora slayings, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's has doubled down on his discourse of changing security strategies, while pinning Mexico’s problems with violence on his unpopular predecessors.
David Agren, Special to USA TODAYMEXICO CITY -- While successfully campaigning across the country last year, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador coined catchy slogans for solving the country’s security situations. “Hugs, not bullets,” he repeated often. “You can’t fight fire with fire!” he would say. “Scholarship students, not sicarios!”
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offers a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on May 29, 2019. - President Lopez Obrador is expected to meet IMF chief Christine Lagarde later today.It’s found a receptive audience in Mexico, where inequality is rife and fatigue with corruption and the elite’s excesses fueled AMLO’s electoral success.
But LeBarón cited another factor driving the violence: a strategy of killing or capturing cartel kingpins. “There’s no longer a war against narcotics traffickers,” he told reporters Oct. 30. “We’re not going to expose the lives of civilians, using the euphemism of collateral damage. That’s over.” Members of the National Guard stand guard near La Morita ranch, belonging to the Mexican-American LeBaron family -of which nine members were killed in a hail of bullets on November 4- in Bavispe, Sonora state, Mexico, on November 6, 2019. - Mexican authorities said Wednesday they believe a drug cartel called "La Linea" was responsible for the murder of the three women and six children, saying the massacre was committed with American-made ammunition.
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