Mexican Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Omar García Harfuch speaks during a news conference at the offices of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection in Mexico City on Feb. 28, 2025. Emiliano Molina/AFP via Getty Images
The head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, said a pattern of organized crime to recruit former Colombian military personnel has been detected in Mexico.
Harfuch said on June 10 that on May 29, Mexican Army personnel detained 17 people in the municipality of Los Reyes, Michoacán. Five were Mexicans and 12 were Colombian nationals—nine former soldiers and three civilians with military training in the use of weapons.
