Gustavo Castillo García
La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, August 3, 2025, p. 10
Technological development, applications such as Google Maps, as well as the creation of shooting, driving and topography simulators allow the elements of the Mexican Army Special Forces Corps to develop high impact operations against crime, supported by the knowledge of territories such as Culiacán, Sinaloa, and Apatzingán, Michoacán.
During a visit to the Special Forces Training Center (CAFE) in Temamatla, State of Mexico, its commander, General José Benito Romero Lebanon, explained that this institution prepares the military to develop their skills and apply specialized techniques for infiltration and undercover techniques, in addition to perfecting sniper techniques, combat diving, operations in rural and urban areas.
The CAFE has facilities dedicated to the development and use of shooting simulators for all types of weapons such as the replicas of thick caliber rifles that use loaders with sensors that show the Impacts
In the whites placed in that area and allow to evaluate different conditions to shoot, also, replicas of obstacles or barriers have been built to improve training.
Ingenuity is essential
Another space in which technology, ingenuity and application of different specialties ranging from engineering, programming, architecture, carpentry, blacksmithing and vehicle management, is seen in the construction of simulators of a Pick-up And a combat vehicle, both can be driven virtually by all types of land through a giant screen that mimics the structure of streets and avenues of populations and communities that have public security problems.
In this training space, members of Armed Forces are trained in the development of public security operations through tracking tasks and aggressions representations, so that they have elements that bring them closer to possible real situations in municipalities such as Culiacán, in Sinaloa, and Apatzingán, Michoacán, where multiple actions have been recorded against organized crime groups.
There are about 100 scenarios and both the Pick-up As the combat vehicle are placed in structures that replicate the movements of the road, the streets and avenues, as well as rural roads and have movements that are generated in those roads.
In 2024, the staff trained in CAFE obtained first place in the international competition of command forces at the continental level, surpassing teams from Colombia and the United States.
