AMLO's strategy from pacification to militarization in Mexico?
19 March 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Daisy Voake
Location
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Room 103Institute of the Americas51 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PNUnited 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.