The Hole in Mexico’s Security Strategy

Ruben Navarrette : Parents searching for their missing children secretly visited a ranch in January and February .

They discovered what appeared to be three crematoriums littered with bone fragments and hundreds of pairs of shoes, some of them identical to the ones their children had been wearing when they went missing, he says.

He says authorities may have known about the ranch before they intervened in September 2024 , when Claudia Sheinbaum took office in October 2024 .

Julian Zelizer : President López Obrador promised to curb impunity for organized crime, but instead prioritized growth of Morena .

He says former president prioritized the growth of the party he founded, which has always been weak on security.

Zelizer says Mexico City mayor Sheinbaum and her public security secretary are trying to fix this disjointed system.

They are passing laws to centralize intelligence collection and analysis.

Mexico ’s national defense secretary is lobbying Morena lawmakers not to pass anti-impunity legislation.

Ruben Navarrette : Sheinbaum 's biggest challenge of all is finding the political will to address corruption inside Morena .

He says the U.S. has more leverage over Mexico now than at any time in recent years .