Estado Mayor Presidencial

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The Estado Mayor Presidencial — EMP (Presidential Guard) is the institution charged with protecting and safeguarding the President of Mexico and the First Lady of Mexico. It is described in its regulations as a techno-military organism and an administrative unit of the Presidency of the Republic of Mexico in facilitating the President's fulfiment of his attributes and functions. So, the EMP is Mexico's Presidential Guard, and also the chief logistical instrument of the President and of the First Lady.

The Presidential Guard is part of the Mexican Army, and a General always leads it, embodied in the Jefatura del Estado Mayor Presidencial, currently lead by General Jesús Javier Castillo Cabrera, whom President Felipe Calderón appointed.