Mexican soldiers today are more lethal than ever, they have smoked 500 Bad Guys in the past three years.
In the first half of the presidency of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican Army confronted on more than 640 occasions with members of different gangs in the country. The official balance of these clashes was 515 shooters dead, with just 89 injured and 381 detained in the past three years.
On the side of the military, 21 soldiers lost their lives in the line of duty.
For every soldier fallen in battle, 24.5 Bad Guys die.
Just like it happened in the governments of Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón, soldiers continue to kill more shooters than they injure or stop. But the lethality of the armed forces has increased in the past three years: today the gap between dead shooters and detainees is greater, as well as between shooters and downed military.
According to the Lethal Force Use Monitor built by experts and organizations from five different countries, these balances exceed established standards and generate alerts about proper application of force in Mexico.