Overview
- Authorities staged a preventive simulacro that deployed more than 600 personnel to seven main highway access points to the Guadalajara metropolitan area to rehearse responses to narcoblock‑style road closures.
- The drill, launched by the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional with the V Military Region and the Jalisco security cabinet, focused on measuring arrival times, activation of alerts and interagency communications at each control point.
- Officials reported the exercise concluded without incidents and reviewed variable unit arrival times to identify procedural gaps for correction in future operations.
- Local authorities announced a second phase set for July 14 to repeat and refine the exercise and to possibly change some road control points based on lessons from the first run.
- The operation revived public debate about tense local security conditions, with some residents saying the visible mobilization caused confusion and distrust while officials urged calm and warned against sharing unverified information.