State Department UAP Cable 005, Mexico, September 16, 2003

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example the auditing commission, tasked with reviewing party expenditures), the
pro-MORENA bloc still does not have a majority in them. Notably, the complaints
committee (tasked with analyzing electoral violations and which previously had a
pro-MORENA majority) now has an anti-MORENA majority.
fS&l:ij Mexico City Security Secretary Steps Down, Might Run for Head of
Government
5. f5Btfl After expressing interest in a possible run for Mexico City head of
government last week (ref A), Mexico City Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch
resigned September 9, saying in a video he would "collaborate with Claudia
Sheinbaum, who with her vision and leadership will give continuity to the
country's transformation." Mexico City's constitution requires officials with a role
in police forces to step down before the electoral process begins (September 10)
if they intend to run for public office in the city. Garcia Harfuch leads potential
MORENA and opposition candidates in almost every poll.
fS&l:ij Pablo Vazquez Becomes Mexico City's New Security Secretary
6. f5Btfj Mexico City Head of Government Marti Batres announced September 9
Under Secretary of Citizen Participation and Crime Prevention Pablo Vazquez
Camacho would replace Garcia Harfuch as Security Secretary. Vazquez has
worked four years for Mexico City's Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC). In his
role as Under Secretary, Vazquez implemented and coordinated violence
prevention and reintegration programs, including the "Cease Fire" program to
reduce gun violence and homicides and the "Reconnect" program to prevent
recidivism in first time criminal offenders, according to media outlets Milenio and
La Silla Rota. Prior to SSC, Vazquez worked for the federal Security Secretariat
(SSPC) and in the then-Prosecutor's General Office. Outside of government, he
has been a guest criminology professor at the National Institute of Criminal
Sciences in Mexico City. Vazquez has a bachelor's degree in international
relations from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology and a master's
degree in criminology from the London School of Economics and Political Science,
according to press reports. La Silla Rota reported Vazquez also studied organized
crime in Sicily and Macedonia.
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