Mexico’s National Guard, explained

The government gave up on a civilian police long before it handed security to the military.

“I don’t know how many gunfights you’ve been in,” Ryan McBeth asked The Mexico Political Economist, “but I can tell you this; when you’re in a gunfight, you’re in combat. You’re not in police combat, you’re not in soldier combat,” said the Iraq War veteran, currently a military and disinformation analyst.

Omar García Harfuch understands this firsthand. O…