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MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the past six years, Mexico has bragged about its oft-questioned country “hugs, not bullets” strategy, in which leaders avoided confrontations with drug cartels that gradually took control of large parts of the country. The thinking was that social programs, not shootings, would gradually drain the pool of cartel gunmen.


Now, one month into new President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term, a series of bloody confrontations suggests that the administration is quietly abandoning the “no bullets” part of that strategy and is much more willing to deploy the full force of the military and the militarized National Guard.


But the challenge Mexico faces now is different from the one it faced during the 2006-2012 drug war. Cartels today are more diversified, more so deeply rooted in migrant smuggling and more willing to use foreign recruits and adolescents to fill their ranks.


All that has led to a series of violent clashes in which security forces shooting at suspected drug cartel convoys end up killing bystanders and migrants, reporting a lopsided death toll where soldiers suffer no harm but most suspects are wiped out.


Sheinbaum has introduced the use of the slogan ‘hugs, not bullets’ popularized by her predecessor and mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who left office on September 30. After all, she has promised to continue every policy of López Obrador. Her office did not respond to a request for comment.


But Sheinbaum has had to perform some verbal gymnastics to avoid completely renouncing the policy.


“It’s clearly not a matter of hugging criminals, no one has ever said that,” Sheinbaum said shortly after taking office. The stuffed animals, she said, were intended for poor young people to prevent them from being recruited as cartel gunmen.


“There are signs of a change in tone towards organized crime, but it is too early to respond,” said Falko Ernst, a security analyst. “It seems unlikely that the Sheinbaum administration would risk a politically uncomfortable, steady stream of violent images by betting on the large-scale balazos (bullets) strategy,” but there could be more willingness to “do the most overt and brazen show of force”. by the cartels.


But it’s hard to imagine Sheinbaum publicly praising drug lords for behaving themselves, or saying — as López Obrador did — that she would “tell their fathers and grandfathers about them” if they cause too much violence.


She has also been unwilling to tolerate criminals taking police and soldiers hostage, or to crow about the reduction of Mexico’s “lethality index” – the measure of the number of suspects killed, injured or in custody, versus victims on the side of the law enforcement – ​​as her predecessor did.


López Obrador famously called off the arrest of drug lord Ovidio Guzmán in 2019 and ordered his release after his Sinaloa cartel threatened to throw the northern city of Culiacan into chaos to win his freedom. López Obrador said he made the decision to avoid bloodshed.


Sheinbaum’s reign was a little different. On her first day on the job, soldiers in the southern state of Chiapas opened fire on a truck that “looked like a truck used by criminal groups.” But after shooting the truck, all they found were migrants. of whom six were killed and 10 injured.


Ten days later, Army and National Guard troops killed three innocent bystanders while pursuing suspected gunmen. And this weekend the National Guard opened fire on a truck carrying migrants, killing two Colombians and wounding at least four.


Then there are the lopsided death figures: López Obrador used to criticize previous governments for gun battles in which all suspects were killed, and very few were taken alive. But in Sheinbaum’s third week in office, soldiers in Sinaloa killed 19 drug cartel suspects and arrested one during a confrontation, but didn’t get a scratch himself.


And by the end of her first month in office, soldiers pursuing cartel gunmen who had killed two local police officers killed seventeen of them but lost no soldiers. Most of the dead and ten of the fifteen armed men arrested during the confrontation were Guatemalan.


“The hugs-not-bullets strategy ended some time ago,” said security analyst David Saucedo, pointing to an increasing number of high-level drug arrests and extraditions of suspects. “The US government has pressured Andrés Manuel López Obrador to resume arresting high-level drug lords.”


One of the key differences Sheinbaum faces is that Mexican cartels have become involved in the lucrative business of smuggling migrants from distant lands.


The cartels used to take a cut of the smugglers moving Central Americans, who used to make up the vast majority of those crossing Mexico to reach the United States. Those migrants paid hundreds or a few thousand dollars each.


Since smugglers opened a new route the Darien Gorgepeople from further away have crossed Mexico and can pay much higher smuggling costs.


At the same time, the crackdown on immigration in the US and Mexico has meant that a significant number of Central and South Americans are now locked out of the United States, military analyst Juan Ibarrola said, noting: “It’s big business , and it is a distant future. more profitable business than medicine.”


Ibarrola claims that the cartels are now using migrants as human shields and sometimes as cannon fodder for their hitmen.


“The recruitment of larger groups of foreign fighters is another sign of the gradual deepening of armed conflict in Mexico,” Ernst said. “If left unchecked – just like the use of homemade explosives – it is a trend that has been allowed to spread.”


Expanding is exactly what the cartels did during López Obrador’s six-year term, from late 2018 to 2024.


“For six years we were governed by the policies of a president who did not understand, or did not realize, that the worst thing he could have done, the worst mistake he could have made, was not to use legal force against criminal violence. ,” says Ibarrola, who is convinced that the policy has now changed.


The other problem Sheinbaum faces is the result of her determination to continue with López Obrador’s strategy to militarize Mexican law enforcement – essentially giving soldiers a task for which they are not trained.


Combined with the mix of migrants and drug traffickers, it almost seems like a sure recipe for more deaths among innocent bystanders.


“It is a fact that the National Guard is not properly applying the rules on the use of force,” Saucedo said. “They tend to open fire before conducting an investigation or trying to detain criminal suspects.”




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