How Mexico Is Battling Organized Crime

Inside the new strategy to strengthen justice and end impunity.

One of the most common assumptions among foreign political analysts is that Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s current president, is little more than a carbon copy of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

That assumption begins to fall apart the moment you look at security policy. There, Sheinbaum has not only broken from López Obrador’s strategy. She has reversed it.