Mexico's top security official said that more than 20,000 people have been arrested nationwide in the first seven months of President Claudia Sheinbaum's term.
The Sheinbaum administration has taken a more aggressive approach than the "hugs, not bullets" security strategy of her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, increasing pressure on criminal organizations by making arrests of high-profile cartel associates as well as seizing large quantities of illicit drugs.
