Under Claudia Sheinbaum's administration, the Mexican government is taking a different approach to her predecessor's "hugs, not bullets" strategy of combating organized crime groups. During his presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) focused on avoiding engaging directly with drug cartels, emphasizing social programs aimed at reducing recruitment into criminal organizations.
Since being sworn in, Sheinbaum has adopted a more proactive approach, launching a special task force to curb cartel-related violence in northern Mexico as well as operations to apprehend and bring down networks between local government officials suspected of having ties with criminal groups in central Mexico.
