In addition to the aforementioned cases of Baja California Sur and Colima, they complete the picture of the state governments of the 4T with a military command, Baja California, where Governor Marina del Pilar appointed Division General Gilberto Landeros on January 1. Briseño, as Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection of the State.
It stands out in the trajectory of this having been part of the Parachute Rifle Battalion, commander in the 2nd Military Zone in Tijuana, Baja California and the 36th in Tapachula, Chiapas. And as undersecretary was the Staff Officer Santana Octavio Martínez.
In Guerrero, the icing governor Evelyn Salgado appointed, as soon as he took office on October 15, 2021, the Marine and former deputy director of intelligence operations Evelio Méndez Gómez, as Secretary of Security.
In Morelos, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, an ally of Morena because he came from the Social Encounter Party (PES) and is now allied with the Social Democrats, appointed Vice Admiral José Antonio Ortiz Guarneros as secretary of security since August 30, 2018.
The president Mara Lezama, from Quintana Roo, barely took office last September 25 and had appointed the former Federal Police commander Manelich Castilla Craviotto as head of security, but five days later, on September 30, 2022, he changed the decision and opted for a soldier, Rubén Oyarvide Pedrero, Rear Admiral Diplomate of General Staff of the Secretary of the Navy
In San Luis Potosí, Governor Ricardo Gallardo, of the Green Party, a Morenista ally, appointed General Guzmar Ángel González Castillo, who is a teacher in National Security and has 45 years in the Armed Forces, since September 26, 2021.
Since November 1, at the beginning of his administration, the president of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, also opted for a secretary of military security, in the figure of Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo, with experience in intelligence and 23 years in the Secretariat of the National Defense (Sedena).
In Zacatecas, David Monreal appointed on November 19 another soldier as his second secretary of security, Retired Brigadier General Adolfo Marín Marín, after dismissing Arturo López Bazán, in the midst of a wave of 20 murders and 10 people hanged.
On October 1, upon assuming the presidency of the state of Tamaulipas, Américo Villareal, from Moreno, appointed the Retired Brigadier General Sergio Hernando Chávez García as secretary. And, in addition, he will have another military officer as undersecretary: General Alex Melgarejo Torres.
His first option, which had been announced days before, was Óscar Aparicio Avendaño, former commissioner of the State Police in Chihuahua, but he was disavowed by Sedena.
And, in Tlaxcala, something similar happened: on May 2, six months after taking office, Governor Lorena Cuéllar appointed Raúl Ruiz García, Brigadier General, Graduate of the General Staff, and with more than 40 years of service in the Army Mexicano, where he led regiments in the Morelia, Michoacán and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
Half a year that government had an office manager, Erick Sergio Ramírez Manzur. And who was outlined for the position, Alfredo Álvarez Valenzuela, found himself related to the violent operation to evict normalistas from Ayotzinapa, which led to a confrontation that left two students dead.
