Federales

Federales is a short term for the Mexican Federal Police, the Federal Investigations Agency (AFI), or the Federal Preventive Police. The term gained widespread usage by English-speakers due to popularization in such films as The Wild Bunch, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Blue Streak, and Machete. The singular "Federale" is in fact incorrect, since the Spanish language uses "es" to pluralize nouns ending in a consonant; therefore, the correct singular form is "Federal." The term is a cognate and counterpart to the slang "Feds" in the United States.