Jorge Carrillo Olea: Mexico's National Security Strategy - Is It a Strategy? Jorge Carrillo Olea - La Jornada
go to original April 2, 2013

Whatever reasons President Enrique Peña Nieto might have had for launching singular comments about public security from Rome, Urbi et Orbi, during his visit to the Vatican, he communicated two fundamental things: that in a year it would be reasonable to evaluate, and that it will be positive, thanks to the national security strategy being implemented.

Many of us want to share his optimism and doing so would be to bet on something good that might begin to appear in a year, but that we can expect significant progress only in a much longer time frame, if all goes well. As to what the President called strategy, one would have some doubts. He and his colleagues have repeatedly referred only to the division of the country into five regions, in which operations would be carried out ad hoc [given the] nature of the area.

And despite much eagerness to strengthen a sense of strategy, it appears that nothing has been formulated to be identified with this purpose. Certainly, enough traits have emerged to think that, far from being comprehensive, which is the central feature of a strategy, one notices a number of omissions, decisions and isolated incidents of very unfortunate confrontations in his team responsible for the issue.

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