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AMLO's strategy from pacification to militarization in Mexico?

19 March 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

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This event is free.

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All

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Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Daisy Voake

Location

Room 103
Institute of the Americas
51 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PN
United Kingdom

In July 2018 AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) and Morena secured a landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential and Congressional elections. With this electoral mandate, AMLO pledged a radical shift in the country’s security strategy. Yet, as this presentation will show, against the backdrop of a critical internal security setting inherited from the Peña Nieto administration, and an adverse external context marked by a roaring opiates crisis in the US, AMLO was forced to modify his security strategy. Indeed, as AMLO´s security initiatives pragmatically adjusted to prevailing insecurity and violent trends he fell back into the mode of militarization that has unfortunately prevailed in Mexico.

About the Speaker

Mónica Serrano

Mónica Serrano is Research Professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales of El Colegio de México.