By Michel Marizco, KJZZ News, Tucson
TUCSON – Mexico’s new president outlined a security strategy Monday that increases the role of the country’s espionage and intelligence agencies.
Among the specifics that stood out in President Enrique Peña Nieto’s announced plans: Mexico will be split into 5 security regions, though where the lines will be drawn on the map remained unsaid; and the creation of a 10,000 member paramilitary police force to take over the Army’s presence on the streets.
George Grayson is a professor and author of a book on the cartels. He says Peña Nieto’s focus on the role that the Ministry of the Interior will play in security is a crucial change.
GRAYSON: “In the past 12 years, the powers of Gobernacíon or the Interior Ministry have been watered down. And this is an attempt to restore them.”
Peña Nieto also said he wants to create 15 federal units to fight crime against the wealthy and middle class by focusing on kidnapping and extortion.
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