US Special Forces trained Mexican drug cartels linked to decapitation, torture, rape
Published: May 6, 2021
The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has established itself as one of the most feared paramilitaries in Mexico over the last decade. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of the Mexican cartels writ large. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable against even conventional armies.
In an interview aired on Mexico’s Telemundo network in May 2019, a former CJNG soldier described his experience at a training camp and claimed that the cartel employed U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to train their recruits.
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40% of Mexico’s police are not officially certified and shouldn’t be working Lowest certification rate is that of the National Guard: 80,000 have not completed the process
Published on Thursday, March 11, 2021
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Almost half of Mexico’s municipal and state police officers are not officially certified as required by the law and shouldn’t be working while the numbers are even worse at the federal level.
The National Security Council granted an 18-month extension in July 2019 for the certification of police officers after it was deemed that the original three-year period was insufficient.
The term of the extension ended Wednesday, according to information obtained by the news website