Mexico - Security Update - July 2020

The CJNG hit Mexico City because AMLO has tolerated the rising use of strategic criminal violence in other states including Guanajuato, Colima and Jalisco.

The CJNG’s attempted assassination of Omar Garcia Harfuch, Mexico City’s top police official, fits into a wider strategic context in which the CJNG conflicts with other criminal groups across Mexico have led to increased violence against civilians, government forces and political actors. In part, the attack in Mexico City occurred because the government…