Formerly the Special Forces Airmobile Group (Spanish: Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales) or GAFE, the SF corps has six regular battalions; plus four specialized units, one of those units is the Fuerza Especial de Reaccion, the other three remain secretive for the public; the motto of the SF Corps is Todo por México (All For Mexico).

Most of the veteran-service soldiers of the Fuerzas Especiales del Alto Mando (FEs High Command) handle Black-Ops missions.

GAFE was created in 1986 as the "Fuerza de Intervención Rápida" (Rapid Intervention Force) to provide security for the FIFA World Cup soccer games in Mexico City.

This group also recruited national and foreign military personnel (like U.S. Army soldiers[9][10] and Guatemalan Kaibiles), corrupt police officers and street gang members, and used their knowledge of torture and psychological warfare to terrorize their rivals and innocent civilians alike.

[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] It is alleged that on 2 October 2013 during a demonstration[22][23] by so-called "anarchist youth groups"[24][25][26] to protest against the Mexican President[27][28] and to commemorate the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre,[29] undercover GAFEs worked as agent provocateurs[30] to disrupt the march and cause the riot police to crush it.

[31] Since its creation they have received a wide variety of training from different special forces groups from around the world (including the French GIGN, Israeli Sayeret and American Green Berets).