Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday his 7-month-old gov...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday his 7-month-old government had yet to make progress in tackling record levels of violence afflicting the country as he launched a new militarized police force tasked with fixing the problem.
“But we still have to resolve the serious problem of insecurity and violence,” the president said in an address to thousands of new National Guard members standing in formation in the Campo Marte of central Mexico City. There were 14,505 murder probes in the first six months of the Lopez Obrador administration, 5.4% more than in the same period a year earlier, official data show. Nevertheless, the totals registered in April and May were lower than in 2018.
After U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to put tariffs on all Mexican exports to the United States if Mexico did not contain migrant flows, Lopez Obrador agreed to send the National Guard to police northern and southern Mexico.
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