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Mexico - March 2025
Violence rises in Tabasco
Javier May, the governor of Mexico’s south-eastern state of Tabasco, appointed a new public security minister and state police commissioner on 15 February. He said they would usher in a “new stage” and help to recover peace in the state, which has seen a surge in violence in the past year. Indeed, the insecurity crisis in Tabasco is now threatening the internal stability of the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), with May blaming former governor Adán Augusto López (2019-2021), Morena’s current leader in the senate, for the situation. Both men are allies of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), who was born in Tabasco and cut his political teeth in the state. This makes rising violence in Tabasco, which is allegedly fuelled by collusion between state officials and organised criminal groups, all the more sensitive. The situation is threatening to reveal a chink in Morena’s otherwise robust armour.
