History UsefulNotes / MexicansWithMachineGuns

* ''Film/ActOfValor'': Mexican special forces work hand-in-hand with the U.S. Navy SEALs in fighting against drug cartels.

* Mexican soldiers appear in the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode ''Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E97TheGift''

* The newly introduced main character in ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a commander of a Mexican special forces group called "Los Vaqueros" who helps Task Force 141 and Shadow Company hunts down Iranian Quds Force operative hiding in Mexico and TheCartel who shelters him. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is also a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities who joined the [=SpecGru=] faction under the recommendation of Colonel Vargas himself.

Presently, there are 12 "Military Regions", which are further broken down into 44 subordinate "Military Zones." In both cases, a numbering system is used for designation. There is no set number of zones within a region, and these can therefore be tailored to meet operational needs, with a corresponding increase or decrease in troop strength. Today the army consists of 260,000 combat-ready deployable ground troops. One notable quality of the Mexican Army is that it has no tanks except for AMX-13s, a light tank. This is mainly because their potential enemies (mostly criminal gangs) can easily be dealt with using light armor and infantry, so building and/or buying anything more armored is seen as a waste. Majority of its armor are French wheeled APCs and IFVs, plus a short-lived German-Mexican produced IFV (the HWK-11, a collaboration between the Secretariat of National Defense and the German firm Henschel[[note]]Henschel also offered a light tank version, the HWK-12, with a turret mounting a Belgian 90mm gun instead of the troop compartment. While Mexico declined to purchase the HWK-12, they did (possibly on a purely experimental basis) mount a similar turret with a French 90mm gun on at least one HWK-11.[[/note]]; at least 52 were built in the 1960s and remain in service into the 21st century) and the new Sandcat series wheeled AIFVs ordered in the New Tens (both from the US and a nationally produced variant).

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* The newly introduced main character in ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a commander of a Mexican special forces group called "Los Vaqueros" who helps Task Force 141 and Shadow Company hunts down Iranian terrorists hiding in Mexico and TheCartel who shelters him. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is also a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities who joined the [=SpecGru=] faction under the recommendation of Colonel Vargas himself.

* The newly introduced main character in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is the commander of a Mexican special forces group called "Los Vaqueros" who helps Task Force 141 and Shadow Company to track down Iranian terrorists hiding in Mexico. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is also a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities threatened by TheCartel who joined the [=SpecGru=] faction under the recommendation of Colonel Vargas himself.

* The newly introduced main character in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is the commander of a Mexican special forces group called "Los Vaqueros" attached to Task Force 141 and Shadow Company. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is also a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities threatened by TheCartel who joined the [=SpecGru=] faction under the recommendation of Colonel Vargas himself.

* The newly introduced main character in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a Mexican special forces operative attached to Task Force 141. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is also a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities threatened by TheCartel who joined the [=SpecGru=] faction under the recommendation of Colonel Vargas himself.

* The newly introduced main character in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a Mexican special forces operative attached to Task Force 141. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities under threat by TheCartel as well as operative for the [=SpecGru=] faction.

* One of the new characters in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a Mexican special forces operative attached to Task Force 141. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities under threat by TheCartel as well as operative for the [=SpecGru=] faction.

* One of the new characters in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a Mexican special forces operative attached to Task Force 141. In addition, one of the playable Multiplayer character, Manuel “Chuy” Ordaz is a former member of Fuerzas Especiales turned combat instructor for local Mexican communities under threat by TheCartel as well as operative for the SpecGru faction.

* One of the new characters in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas, is a Mexican special forces operative attached to Task Force 141.

* They appear in ''Creator/TomClancy's VideoGame/GhostReconAdvancedWarfighter'', as allies; the Ghost team is sent in to help them put down a rebellion, and at times you can fight alongside loyalist troops.

* They appear in ''Creator/TomClancy's VideoGame/GhostRecon: Advanced Warfighter'', as allies; the Ghost team is sent in to help them put down a rebellion, and at times you can fight alongside loyalist troops.
* In ''Film/TheOmegaCode 2: Megiddo'', General Garcia leads Mexican and American alongside the Chinese to fight [[TheAntichrist Stone Alexander's]] World Union Army. They had Abrams tanks, something Mexico doesn't have in RealLife but are contemplating to buy.

!! Mexican Army

!! Mexican Navy

!! Mexican Air Force

* One of the new characters in the upcoming ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]]'', Colonel Alejandro Vargas is an operative for the Mexican special forces.

* One of the new characters in the upcoming [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIi]], Colonel Alejandro Vargas is an operative for the Mexican special forces.