At his confirmation hearing in the senate in late March, new public security commissioner Manuel Mondragón was at pains to refute claims that the emergence of ‘self-defence’ groups and ‘community police’ [SSR-13-02] was threatening to make Mexico ungovernable. Events over the following weeks in Guerrero and Michoacán showed that at the very least they had become a complex political issue that, at the very least, has suddenly posed a challenge to the government’s aim of establishing single commands of all police forces at state level.End of preview - This article contains approximately 561 words.
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