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Mary Speck: "Mexico can look to the example of Ciudad Juárez"
Mary Speck: "Mexico can look to the example of Ciudad Juárez"
Mexico’s Forgotten Mayors: The Role of Local Government in Fighting Crime
Mexico’s Forgotten Mayors: The Role of Local Government in Fighting Crime
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. Crime and the Local State in Mexico
    1. The New Map of Crime
    2. Police and Military
    3. Mayors on the Front Lines
  4. Why Local Law Enforcement Struggles
    1. Rising Violence
    2. Fiscal Weakness
    3. The Partisan Effect
    4. Electoral Vulnerabilities
  5. Options for Mayors
    1. Security Cooperation Agreements
      1. Overview
      2. History
      3. Current trends
    2. The Temptation to Militarise
  6. Rethinking the Local Role
    1. A Coalition for Cooperation
    2. Strengthening Municipal Funding Cooperation
  7. Conclusion
  8. Appendix A: Violence Categorisation of the 2,457 Municipalities of Mexico
Podcast / Latin America & Caribbean 1 minute

Mary Speck: "Mexico can look to the example of Ciudad Juárez"

Mary Speck is one of the authors of Crisis Group’s latest report on Mexico “Back from the Brink: Saving Ciudad Juárez” which examines how the Mexican government can learn from the example of Juárez to tackle and prevent organised violent crime.

Crosses set up in front of the student union at the University of Utah in remembrance of women who were killed near the U.S./Mexico border. WIKIMEDIA/Paul Fisk
Listen to Mary Speck, Crisis Group’s Mexico & Central America Project Director, describing how the citizens of Juárez, a city once dubbed the world’s “murder capital”, prepared the way for a new approach to combat organised crime. CRISIS GROUP

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