LatinNews Daily Report - 19 March 2014

SECURITY | Peña Nieto names Modragón’s replacement. On 18 March Mexico’s interior minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, announced that President Enrique Peña Nieto had named Monte Alejandro Rubido García as the new head of the national security commission (CNS), replacing Manuel Mondragón y Kalb after the latter tendered his resignation. Created by the Peña Nieto government in 2012, the CNS is the body tasked with implementing and coordinating the government’s security efforts at the national level. Mondragón’s departure for “personal reasons” came as a surprise given that Mexico’s security forces now seem to be making some significant progress in fighting criminality, giving a credibility boost to the federal government’s security strategy. Rubido, who until now was the head of the national public security system (SNSP), which is in charge of overseeing public security efforts within the interior ministry, is now set to become the new CNS head if his appointment is ratified by Mexico’s congress.

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