Sedena reinforces security in Sinaloa

Gustavo Castillo and Ruben Villalpando

Reporter and correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, July 27, 2024, p. 5

After the arrest of Ismael The May Zambada García, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) sent 200 elite members of the Special Forces Corps to that state to reinforce its security. State and municipal authorities in Chihuahua also agreed to reinforce surveillance actions in Ciudad Juárez.

Sedena reported that it sent soldiers to Culiacán, Sinaloa, in order to reinforce the current operational deployment that is maintained in that municipalitywhere in recent months the federal government has developed a campaign to locate and destroy drug labs where methamphetamines were illegally produced.

The military personnel arrived at the Culiacán International Airport in a National Guard aircraft, “with the mission of collaborating closely with local authorities to reduce the illicit activities of criminal groups with a presence in the aforementioned municipality, through joint actions that allow guaranteeing freedom, order and public peace.

Special Forces units are characterized by their speed, mobility, and capacity for deployment and reaction that allows them to effectively generate and exploit intelligence products, with a wide variety of weapons, material, equipment, aircraft, and specialized training to operate in any geographic environment.

Military personnel will carry out deterrence and prevention tasks, patrols, reconnaissance and establishing military security posts, Sedena said.

Special measures in Juarez

In Ciudad Juarez, state and municipal authorities agreed at the security table to take special measures in view of the risk of a possible resurgence of violence among drug trafficking groups seeking to regroup after the arrest of The May Zambada.

The state attorney general, César Jáuregui Moreno, said that they remain alert and already have special operations, because it is known that in Juárez the groups grouped in the organization New people They are part of the Sinaloa cartel that led The May.

Jáuregui Moreno said that the governor, María Eugenia Campos Galván, instructed them to be alert under any circumstances.

The prosecutor said that so far they have not detected any increase in insecurity or possible arrangements within criminal groups, but they are alert to any circumstance that implies any risk for citizens.

He did not rule out that criminal groups operating in the state work for The May Zambada.