Overview
- The inspections started Tuesday when Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla traveled to Sinaloa and continued Wednesday with Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch meeting the state governor in Culiacán.
- Federal leaders will inspect troop and Guardia Nacional deployments, test the C4 command‑and‑control center and review the terrain chosen for a new 2,640‑bed federal penitentiary funded by the national government.
- Security forces are carrying out operations on the ground as the visits unfold, including an October 26–27 confrontation in Guasave that left two dead and that officials say may include Jesús “Chuy Peñuelas” pending forensic confirmation.
- The cabinet ordered daily evaluations of progress, assigned the Secretariado Ejecutivo to monitor police‑strengthening plans, and directed reviews of local police needs for personnel, training, equipment and investigative capacity.
- The push follows more than two years of cartel factional fighting that surged after September 2024 and recent prison violence at El Castillo in Mazatlán, events officials say underpin the urgency of federal oversight and prison reforms.