Rejecting a renewed “war” against drug traffickers, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday unveiled her strategy to battle organized crime in a nation where each day brings word of new assassinations, gang wars, massacres and other bloodshed.

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Instead, she outlined a four-point strategy that emphasized intelligence-gathering, troop deployment, improved federal-state coordination and providing opportunities to dissuade impoverished young people from joining organized crime — which is among Mexico’s major employers.

A centerpiece of the plan is doubling down on the often-criticized “hugs not bullets” strategy of Sheinbaum’s predecessor and mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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    1 month ago

    I think that Mexico doesn’t presently have the death penalty.

    kagis

    Yeah.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Mexico

    Capital punishment in Mexico was officially abolished on 15 March 2005,[1] having not been used in civil cases since 1957, and in military cases since 1961. Mexico is the world’s most populous country to have completely abolished the death penalty.