In the presentation of the Government’s security plan, this Tuesday, the secretary of the branch, Omar García Harfuch, gave details of the last movements of Alejandro Arcos, mayor of Chilpancingo, before being murdered on Sunday. Arcos, he said, went alone to a meeting, “without escorts or a driver,” in the town of Petaquillas, in the rural area of the municipality. The official has not given more details, but Petaquillas is part of the area of influence of the criminal group Los Ardillos. Asked by reporters, Harfuch did not detail who the mayor met with.
The murder of Mayor Arcos shook the country and the new Government, which has barely been in office for a week. The body of the municipal president appeared dismembered, his head on the awning of the truck and the rest of his body inside, an image that illustrates the empowerment of criminal groups in the region, one of the main challenges of the Executive, headed by Claudia Sheinbaum . The president wanted to address the criticism of the Guerrero authorities for what happened, particularly against the governor, also a Morenista Evelyn Salgado. “You have our full support,” he said.
In just 15 minutes, Harfuch has detailed the Government’s security strategy, a plan that EL PAÍS has advanced in a couple of pieces in the last week. The official, who has reported that today he will travel to Culiacán, together with the Secretary of Defense, to “supervise tasks”, has indicated that they will work around four axes, attention to the causes of the violence, unleashed in Mexico since years ago, the consolidation of the National Guard, the strengthening of the investigation and intelligence capabilities of the State and the coordination of the security cabinet with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the rest of the state corporations.
The main objective, he explained, is to reduce murders and extortion, “neutralize generators of violence and criminal networks, paying attention to areas with a high incidence of crime.” Harfuch has also spoken of a “National Intelligence System, which will allow naval, military and financial intelligence to be integrated into research folders.” Sheinbaum has said that the system will be created today. Harfuch added that the cabinet “will increase the human and technological capabilities of the National Intelligence Center (CNI).” The official, who has also announced the creation of a new undersecretary of police investigation and intelligence, has insisted: “We now have to convert existing intelligence into useful information.”
Although the plans that the security cabinet has handled these weeks include 12 areas of special attention for the authorities, Harfuch has reduced them to six. “In Guerrero, Baja California, Guanajuato, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Chihuahua, we will implement a high-impact crime prevention strategy,” he said. “There are communities that live far from the reality of Mexico City. There are families that do not have access to local police. We must take advantage of the large deployment of 130,000 members of the National Guard and its barracks,” he argued.
The official has referred several times to his years as police chief of the capital. “We already implemented the bases of the strategy in Mexico City, where we worked in close collaboration with the National Guard, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Navy, and other institutions, which allowed us to reduce intentional homicides and high-level crimes. impact,” he noted. In that sense, Sheinbaum has recalled the Barrio Adentro program. “What did it consist of? All the secretariats joined together to go house to house in areas with the highest crime rates, to comprehensively serve families. If children didn’t go to school, we solved it, if there was no work, we found it,” he said.
Sheinbaum has explained that the plan will be implemented first in Guanajuato, a State that, governed by the opposition, registers the highest number of murders in the country. And he has said that Harfuch will remain in communication with the new governor, Libya Denise García. “In addition to the highest number of homicides, Guanajuato is also the region with the highest number of additions,” he said, without explaining how he reached that conclusion. “León is the municipality with the highest number of poor people in the country,” he said, “and Guanajuato is the state where the average salary is less than the minimum wage. There is a development model that failed. What are we going to do? We are going to strengthen this part of attention to the causes,” he concluded.
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