Past event: MEXSEC 2014 Conference

Sharing best practice and promoting greater national security integration and cooperation in Mexico

International criminal networks use Mexico and the sub-region as a key hub for the distribution, wholesale, and production of illicit drugs and smuggling in weapons from across the northern border. This threatens to reverse the remarkable progress made in economic development over the past decade. The proceeds of organized crime fuels corruption allowing drug cartels to co-opt or buy political power creating an existential threat to the prosperity of the people of Mexico while creating challenges for law enforcement.

MEXSEC is a high-level security summit that brings together senior diplomatic, defense, internal security and law-enforcement professionals from Mexico and around the world in order to share best practice and champion greater national integration and cooperation. MEXSEC supports, and seeks to contribute to, a unified response to maritime and land border security and law enforcement as the most effective way to disrupt and dismantle transnational organized crime and combat illicit flows.


Key Topics

  • Land and maritime border security
  • Critical infrastructure security and protecting natural resources
  • Intra-agency collaboration and information sharing
  • National strategy for fighting organized crime
  • Recruiting, training and capacity building for law enforcement
  • Future requirements for UAVs, Maritime Patrol & Ground Surveillance Aircraft, Coastal & Border Sensors, Tactical Protected Vehicles, Fast Intercept craft, patrol & surveillance craft, Air Mobility, Light Attack/Counter-Insurgency Aircraft, Support Helicopters


Mexico Facts

  • Defense spending doubled from $4 billion in 2006 to nearly $8 billion in 2013 (source: SIPRI). Projected spending is forecast to be $50 billion over the next 5 years.
  • Security is a top national priority as Mexico intends to attract unprecedented foreign direct investment. By 2015, Boston Consulting Group estimates manufacturing in Mexico to have a 30% cost advantage over China (Source: The Economist, Jan 4th, 2014).
  • Mexican military requirements to 2018 largely comprise mobility, transport, C4ISR and light attack aircraft. Navy requirements comprise 53 new vessels including at least 14 Tenochtitlan-class OPVs and 24 interceptor craft among others.


MEXSEC plans to include high-level briefings from:

  • Mexican Navy, Army and Air Force
  • The Gendarmerie Nacional
  • Commission Nacional de Securidad (CNS)
  • Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (CISEN)
  • Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Securidad Publica (SNSP)
  • Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales (INACIPE)
  • Procurador General de la República (PGR)
  • National Energy company, PEMEX
  • Customs Administration (SHCP)
  • Policía Federal (PF)
  • Central America Integration System (SICA/SRE)
  • Inter-American Defense Board
  • Organization of American States, CARICOM
  • The Armed Forces and Federal Police from Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, United States, Canada, Brazil and others.

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Early-confirmed speakers:

  • Celso Gamboa Sánchez, Minister of Public Security, Government of Costa Rica
  • Hon. John B. Saldivar, Minister of National Security, Government of Belize
  • Admiral Conrado Aparicio Blanco, Inspector General and Comptroller of the Navy, SEMAR
  • H.E. Amb. Adam Blackwell, Secretary of Multidimensional Security, Organization of American States
  • Ms. Caryn C. Hollis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, U.S. Department of Defence
  • Admiral Bento, Director General of the Secretariat, Inter American Defence Board
  • Major General Rafael Melara Rivera, Chief of Defence, El Salvador Armed Forces
  • Brigadier General William Armando Mejía Martínez, Chief of General Staff, Salvadorean Army
  • Rear Admiral Flávio Rocha, Deputy Chief of Strategy, General Staff, Brazilian Navy
  • Rear Admiral John Borland, Commandant, Belize Coast Guard
  • Brigadier David Jones, Commander, Belize Defence Force
  • Brigadier General James Taylor, Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy and Plans, NORAD-USNORTHCOM
  • Police Commissioner Juan José Andrade, Director General of the Costa Rican Police, President of Ameripol
  • Commissioner Gilberto Méndez, Secretary General, National Naval Air Service, Panama Ministry of Public Security
  • James Story, Director of Western Hemisphere Programs, Bureau of International Narcotics, U.S. State Department
  • Antonio L. Mazzitelli, Representative to Mexico, UNODC
  • Senior Representative, tbc, Peruvian Navy

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Venue & Accommodation

Cancún Center
Boulevard Kukulcan KM. 9 1er Piso, Cancun,
Zona Hotelera C.P. 7, Mexico
Website:  http://www.cancuncenter.com/
Phone: (998) 881 0400
Fax: (998) 881 0402

Accommodation
Travel and accommodation are not included in the conference fee; however we have put together a HotelMap that displays discounted accommodation for hotels in the area near to MEXSEC. The map displays live availability and allows you to book directly with each hotel: https://www.HotelMap.com/pro/MXJ5L

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Event details
Organizer : IQEU
Event type : Conference
Reference : ASDE-3485