Leaked documents from the Pentagon in a Discord chat have evidenced an existing conflict between sedena and Marinein which a possible frustration of the Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Duránhead of the Secretary of the Navy for the possibility that the army was the one to take control of Mexican airspace.
The documents highlighted that tensions between the armed forces could worsen.
The publication of the situation concerning the Secretary of National Defense and the Secretary of the Navy was made by Nick Miroff of The Washington Postwhere the leaks that arose as a result of the events that occurred in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, where members of the gulf cartel they kidnapped four American tourists, killing two of them.
Inside the leaked documents. is the assessment made by US military officials on the implications of the fact that it was the Mexican Army who would assume the supervision and control of civil aviation.
According to the Washington Post, Mexico carried out the deployment of the armed forces in the fight against drug traffickers and criminal groups in the country. During the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)military officers have had to expand their civilian roles.
The documents made a prediction that the head of the Mexican government will continue assigning more supervisory responsibilities to the armed forcesalthough without being proportional in the increase in resources, something that is usually seen as one of the ways for corruption to appear.
The military assessment carried out by USAmentioned that the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán, was so frustrated with the possibility that the army would take control and supervision of the airspace that he “instructed the Navy officials to limit cooperation with Sedena in response”.
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