Overview
- The heads of the Defense, Navy and Security departments started coordinated supervision visits to Sinaloa this week, with the Secretary of Defense Ricardo Trevilla Trejo confirmed to have visited on Tuesday.
- Authorities will inspect federal deployments, evaluate the functioning of the Centro de Control, Comando, Comunicaciones y Cómputo (C4) and meet state and municipal police in Culiacán and Mazatlán to identify equipment and personnel needs.
- The federal government has confirmed construction of six new penitentiaries financed with federal resources and says Sinaloa will be the first site, with the planned center sized for about 2,640 inmates.
- The visits follow deadly riots at the Mazatlán prison El Castillo on October 8–9 that left multiple people dead, prompted the removal of the prison director and raised questions about command-and-control inside facilities.
- Officials present the agenda as a single, coordinated strategy to expand federal presence, improve interagency coordination on the ground and reduce the ability of cartel factions to operate from inside prisons, with further visits and construction timelines to be monitored.