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Mexico’s insecurity crisis remains unchanged despite the success of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government. While murders nationwide are down, it appears part of the reason for that is that the number of people who are forcibly disappeared has increased.
Throw in large areas where rival cartels or factions of the same cartel battle each other, like in Sinaloa, the average Mexican is fed up with the violence and disappearances.
It is against this backdrop that some Mexicans support the U.S. military directly taking on the country’s cartels, viewing the Mexican government as inept or too corrupt to do it alone.
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I spoke to some of these Mexicans during a recent memorial service for people who have gone missing, some as far back as 2007 and as recently as 2023. The event took place on the outskirts of Tijuana at a compound that was used by the cartel to dissolve victims so their bodies would never be found.
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“The Mexican government hides behind national sovereignty and the non-intervention of foreign governments. But from my point of view, if we have a problem, we must accept help,” said Fernando Ceguera Flores, president of the Association United for the Disappeared of Baja California. “I do agree that there should be cooperation between countries to attack the scourge of drug trafficking and the missing persons issue together.”
Another attendee, Maria Dolores Hernandez Loera, told me, “The way we are here in this country, we truly need to grab onto everything we can, whatever help it may be for us, because really, the government hasn’t done much.”
She continued, “I do believe we need help from other places to be able to fight these people because, unfortunately, they are taking our youth…My son was only 21 years old.”
Hernandez Loera’s son, Humberto, went missing in 2019 three months after arriving in Tijuana with his wife and infant daughter.
“They should already do something because here in Mexico, they don’t. If [Trump] is going to start helping us tackle this issue I don’t see it as a bad thing,” said Claudia Lopez Ayala, who is looking for her son, Christopher Giovanni Lopez Lopez. Ayala’s son went missing in September 2022.
The issue of the American military being used in Mexico is a touchy subject for our southern neighbors. Starting with the Mexican-American War, other military engagements, and the ongoing drug war, many other Mexicans are skeptical or downright adamant U.S. troops on their soil would be a disaster.
President Sheinbaum has made it clear she does not want U.S. military personnel operating in Mexico. Her stance is one that is not popular in Latin America anymore.
Recently, U.S. Marine Raiders and Army Green Berets conducted an operation with Ecuadorian police to arrest members of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who were working in Ecuador. Such missions could serve as a blueprint for U.S. troops to work with other Latin American countries to hit cartels where it hurts the most.
If these successes against criminal groups in different nations continues, it will be harder for Mexicans to not want the same thing to happen their home.
Yea, NO! U.S.A. Is Not the worlds army! The USMilitary protects, defends, fights For America First. We often assist, help even train other countries forces to protect, defend, fight For their own countries. America cannot do this for another country! Mexico has to protect, defend, fight for Mexico! the mexican govt. is responsible.
Only one thought here. What do the cartels do? And finally what about our children? Guess they don't matter much to several of you.