According to The Los Angeles Times, Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, has earned a reputation as a competent lawman willing to stand up to cartels.
No floodlights illuminate the night sky when the citizens of Mexico’s Gotham need a hand. No hotline summons this super-cop from a hidden redoubt.
But Mexico does indeed have its own “Batman”: Omar García Harfuch, security czar in the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
He acquired the Batman moniker during his days as Mexico City’s crime-busting police chief under then-Mayor Sheinbaum. Like the stalwart Dark Knight, García Harfuch emits the vibe of a vigilant protector who compensates for a lack of superpowers with more cerebral skills — a mix of intelligence, resolve, and moxie.
In his current post (official title: Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection), García Harfuch is inevitably dispatched to hot spots from the northern border to the southern hinterlands — sites of assassinations, massacres, gang wars, and other headline-grabbing incarnations of Mexican mayhem. The script never varies: He vows to snare the bad guys. Arrests follow.
Like his boss, Sheinbaum, the security chief disputes President Trump’s assertions that Mexico is “run by” cartels, though he doesn’t deny the widespread sway of organized crime.
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Source: Los Angeles Times
