Overview

• At the Senate’s Dimensiones de la Seguridad Nacional conference, experts warned that organized crime networks now exceed state capacity and operate transnationally through drug trafficking, human trafficking and terrorism.
• Brigadier General José Alfredo Ortega Reyes noted that Mexico lacks an updated national security program due to a decade-long gap in its Agenda Nacional de Riesgos since 2012.
• Speakers called for an immediate revision of the 2005 National Security Law and the reestablishment of a legally grounded Interior Security framework to clarify threat assessment and agency coordination.
• Senator Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera urged expanded legislative oversight to set institutional limits, shape security budgets and ensure civilian control over military operations.
• Panelists agreed that national security design must originate from a clear 21st-century project of nationhood rather than being imposed externally.