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Mexico

• Arturo Angel, “Aun Sin Reforma, Sedena Ya Controla Bases, Direccion y Reclutamiento de la Guardia Nacional” (Animal Politico (Mexico), September 1, 2021).

La Sedena también mantiene el control completo de las 32 coordinaciones estatales de la Guardia Nacional, y no solo de su alto mando operativo. Al frente de cada una de dichas coordinaciones esta nombrado un general en activo

• Nathaniel Parish Flannery, “Can President Lopez Obrador End Mexico’s Drug War?” (Forbes, September 1, 2021).

The DEA even have a term for it – it is the essential building block of the war on drugs. They call it divide and conquer. But it is the drug wars dirty little secret

• Ángeles Mariscal, “Desarticulan Caravana Migrante, los Detienen Mientras Descansaban, Tras Caminar 107 Kilometros” (Chiapas Paralelo (Chiapas), September 1, 2021).

Alrededor de las 9 de la mañana, unos 200 agentes llegaron al municipio, rodearon las calles que llevan a la plaza central, y tomaron por sorpresa a hombres, mujeres y niños que descansaban

Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border

• Nick Miroff, Mary Beth Sheridan, “For U.S. and Mexico, Awkward First Steps to Restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’” (The Washington Post, September 1, 2021).

In private, Mexican officials said they are waiting to see how U.S. officials propose to restore “Remain in Mexico,” and whether they have a plan to avoid the aspects of the program’s last iteration when rights groups documented the abuse of returned migrants

U.S.-Mexico Border

• Josh Gerstein, “Biden Doj Seeks to Preserve Border Officials’ Power to Turn Away Asylum Seekers” (Politico, September 1, 2021).

Alexander Halaska of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation told U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Bashant that the present administration is reassessing the policies that officials often refer to as “metering,” but which critics call a “turnback” of asylum-seekers