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Mexico - More on militarization

When a president gives the military a greater political and economic role, the threat is that they grab on to it.

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Sep 15, 2022
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My column in World Politics Review this week focused on AMLO’s militarization push. Two of the points I highlight against the increasing militarization are that Mexico’s military has a history of human rights abuses (also read Carin Zissis’s column on the missing 43 students) and that deploying the military hasn’t worked in the past.

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