MEXICO CITY—Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Thursday the deployment of over 6,000 National Guard members to stations and “other facilities” of the capital’s metro system after a series of incidents she described as unusual.
Sheinbaum, considered a top contender for the ruling Morena party ahead of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election, said that she had asked President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday for the support of the guard, a militarized police force, after several “atypical” episodes.
On Jan. 7, a train crash killed one woman and injured 57 others. The accident followed the May 2021 collapse of the rail overpass between two stations that killed 26 people….