Jose Luis Granados Ceja

I think they feel very positive about it.

She has extraordinarily high approval ratings.

They oscillate between 70 and 80 percent.

I mean, the kinds of approval ratings people are unheard of in most parts of the world.

And part of it, you know, one of the places where she does receive criticism, where people feel like more needs to be done is precisely around security.

Under the previous administration of Lopez Obrador, there was a pretty major shift in the security strategy, where they went from an all-out war, you know, they stopped talking about war, they stopped talking about, you know, the war against the cartels, and instead started focusing more on investigation, prevention, above all, this philosophy of investing in communities and in young people to try to dissuade them from organized crime groups.

And I think in a lot of ways it was effective.

But we're also dealing with

really violent, heavily armed, and extremely well-funded organizations where social investment is not going to be enough, right?

And I do think that with Claudia Scheinbaum, and she probably wouldn't say as much so as to not seem as if she's disagreeing with her predecessor because of the

important place he occupies in the kind of political imaginary in this country, but I do think has taken a far more aggressive approach of wanting to go after these major figures.

I think part of it is naturally due to the pressure of the United States to kind of, you know, have more things to show off in terms of successes.

But I do think that a lot of people are feeling reassured, you know, feeling like, you know,

actions are being done and that steps are being taken to attend to the kind of quality of life things.

You know, organized crime groups have been active here in this country for decades, right?

But it's sort of their interventions, the way that they actually affect the day-to-day of people that really kind of undermines their confidence in the ability of the state to handle this, right?

So the kidnappings, the extortion, all of that actually under her security chief, Omar Garcia Harfuch, who incidentally was once a target of the very man who was killed yesterday, has been far more on investigation and actually going after the money that provides them the ability to engage in all of this.

And we're seeing a very slight increase, I think, in the approval ratings when it comes to security here in Mexico because of that small shift, but important shift in her security strategy.

So interesting.

Well, it looks like Trump is going to go forward with it no matter what.