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Security & Strategic Review - October 2021
MEXICO: DTOs increasingly use military tactics
Mexico’s drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) appear to be in a constant state of evolution. At present there is a trend towards fragmentation, as the DTOs use smaller ones as proxies or franchised sub-contractors, and as new groups emerge in local turf wars. One significant change is that the DTOs are using more military tactics.
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