However, this year it has targeted the head of criminal structures and proof of this was the operation to arrest Ricardo Ruiz, alias “RR” and Gerardo González “El Apá”, two alleged commanders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
“The hugs not bullets strategy included a fundamental component: the failure to capture high-profile members of the drug cartels, But if we are talking about an attempted capture in Jalisco and Guanajuato of number two and number three of the structure of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, there is a political shift. The capture of Rafael Caro Quintero and his possible extradition is also a change of this strategy”, adds Saucedo.
For Víctor Hernández, coordinator of the Ibero Puebla National Security Diploma and member of the Olof Palme Center for Analysis and Research on Peace, Security and Development and the National Intelligence Network, capturing the leaders of organizations is a strategy that instead of to pacify, usually generates more violence.
“The only thing that is achieved is to dislodge the criminal world and provoke reprisals, fights between them, which end up affecting the population. A good operation is not to arrest the capos, it must be to arrest 100, 150 people such as their hit men, drug dealers and that requires intelligence work, ”he maintains.
The alleged attempt to capture “El Doble R” and “El Apá” generated a day of violence in Jalisco and Guanajuato in early August. Roadblocks, burned vehicles, burned establishments, citizens stripped of their cars were some of the postcards that were seen in those states.
However, given the rumor of the captures, the Secretary of Defense stated that they did not materialize.
Colima also came under fire a few days ago after José Bernabé “N”, alias ‘La Vaca’, one of the main generators of violence in that state, was arrested in Mexico City.
Colima under fire after the arrest of ‘La Vaca’
Every Thursday, already as a fixed section in the morning conference of President López Obrador, Ricardo Mejía, Undersecretary of Public Security, presents the Zero Impunity report, where he recounts one by one the arrests carried out by the security forces of generators of violence, a not such a priority objective for this administration at the start of the six-year term.
