Operation Enjambre Tops 111 Detained, Including 14 Mayors from Four Parties

Operation Enjambre has accumulated 111 detainees and 14 mayors bound over for trial, drawn from four parties. Here is the breakdown by state and the key cases nationwide.

Operation Enjambre, coordinated by the secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, has accumulated 111 people detained for alleged ties to criminal networks, with official figures as of September 8, 2026. Of the total, 14 sitting and former municipal presidents have been bound over for trial or jailed, according to El Universal's tally.

The operation began in the State of Mexico and has spread across the country, according to La Jornada, which on September 9 reported the figures from the federal security cabinet. The Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection maintains that the policy behind the operation is zero impunity and that no public servant is shielded by office or party affiliation. The detail matters because the phenomenon reaches the first level of government: municipal administrations, where public works are authorized, property tax is collected and municipal public security is run. The accusations gathered in the tally describe networks dedicated to extortion, protection rackets and the theft of cargo trucks.

The 14 municipal officials facing charges are spread across four political forces: six from the PRI-PAN-PRD coalition, four from the Morena-PT-PVEM bloc, three from Movimiento Ciudadano and one from a local party. Geographically the cases concentrate in the State of Mexico, with 60 of the arrests, more than half the total, and in the cargo corridor between Puebla and Veracruz, with 16 detainees. 91% of the 111 detainees are public security commanders, area directors and rank-and-file police officers, not elected officials. Among the cases cited are María Elena Martínez Robles, former mayor of Amanalco, State of Mexico; Isaac Rodríguez Ochoa, mayor of Esperanza, Puebla; and Said de Jesús Godos Luna, mayor of Tepeyahualco, Puebla. The security cabinet also reports 20 final convictions.

Investigations remain open in 10 states and Operation Enjambre has criminal proceedings underway against the detained municipal officials, with Puebla and Morelos among the entities with the most cases. The next figure to watch is how many of those cases reach a final conviction.

This article was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence based on verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.

This article was written with artificial intelligence assistance from verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.