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Long-term deployment and an ever-expanding mandate may harm the reputation of Mexico's most trusted institution.

142shares The Mexican marines carefully stacked the plastic drums one by one, dressed head to toe in white hazmat suits with gas masks tightly fastened around their faces to shield themselves from any toxic fumes. Deep in the sierra of the state of Sinaloa, long the cradle of the country’s drug trade, authorities counted the solid crystal and liquid methamphetamine, precursor chemicals and equipment found at the clandestine lab. On that Friday, August 17, 2018, security units in the air and on the ground had flanked the town of Alcoyonqui, nested into the surrounding mountains less than an ...

How Organized Crime Is Evolving in Mexico and Central America Experts discussed how regional governments, and a new U.S. administration, can work to halt the sprawling influence of organized crime in pandemic times. Speakers: Luis Guillermo Solís, Interim Director at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University and former President of Costa Rica Andrew Selee, President of the Migration Policy Institute Sonja Wolf, Cátedra CONACYT Assistant Professor with the Drug Policy Program at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico C...