Historically, attitudes toward the army had varied in Mexico. In the aftermath of 1968, when the army had participated in the massacre of student demonstrators at Tlaltelolco in Mexico City and, later, in the ensuing anti-guerrilla campaigns of the 1970s, many viewed the Mexican Army as an abusive instrument of the state with no regard for human rights and a long record of committing atrocities against campesinos and poor, rural people as well as others who were in opposition to the government. Some of the military’s top brass had also been arrested for corruption and working in consort with drug lords. But there was a counter-narrative. Many also viewed the army as the most disciplined and least corrupt of the Mexican institutions, and some of the generals had earned the admiration of the nation for standing up to the cartels and fighting them hard while exposing corrupt police and politicians. Many Juarenses had high hopes that the army might solve the crisis of violence that was eviscerating their city.
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