It creates basic questions. “If they intend to designate smugglers as Narco terrorists, do they also include Americans who are part of these networks because we don’t just talk about famous drug cartels, but networks We also talk about money laundering, weapons, and many of them are in the United States.
According to Zavala, the narrative allows figures like President Trump to use the concept of drugs as a tool for intimidation, threats and extortion to the Mexican government. “Instead of describing the facts, drugs are based on spectral concepts, on the political phantoms used to force Mexico to coordinate with Washington’s interests,” he said.
Executive order to intervene militarily in Mexico
Military intervention in the Mexican territory with selected invasions aimed at harming cartels is something that has been on the US radar screen for a while. But analysts argue that this will be a foot shooting for the Trump administration.
“Using the concept of drugs, the US government gives it the power to intervene in Mexico in a military manner. It is very complex because intervention is in this way to harm binary relationships, which is very delicate It is almost unthinkable. [the idea of military aggression]”Zavala explains.” I believe that in addition to courage, the Mexican government is generally aligned because at the end of our security policy it has always been subjected to violations. Even under the heading of the United States. “
The President of Mexico, Claudia Shinboum, said Wednesday that the Secretary of State, Juan Ramman de La Fuentene, had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He did not provide details of the conversation, but said it was a “very intimate conversation” and they discussed “issues of immigration and security.” Rubio has said he would prefer any action, any decision made from Washington, to cooperate with the Mexican government.
“Cartels are not there”
Osoldo Zavala (Siudad Jawarz, 1975) specializes in the Mexican narrative and has an alternative view of the Narco phenomenon in Mexico. He believes that the image of the cartels is exaggerated and supported by the government. Author from Imaginary US – MEXICO Drug Wars: State power, organized crime and Nanorasto political history (2012-2012)He explains to Wired that the war against drug trafficking is generally based on imaginary, contradictory, and often absurd concepts, which gradually form an imaginary that shows drug trafficking in a warning way.
“The US government has succeeded in creating a long list of criminal concepts, monsters and actors, not only in the United States but also in Mexico. So, when Americans want it, an organization Or another organization. In the 1980s, it was Guadalajara, with faces such as Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, El Guzman’s main face. All the cinalva cartels rotates.
Zawola argues that the narratives used by the US government are ways to simplify a complex problem and give a common sense of discussion that will otherwise be much more complex. “If we consider that a large portion of drug use occurs in the United States, there are organizations in the country that facilitate smuggling, money laundering, and in many cases are more controversial or dangerous than Mexican people. For Mexico’s panorama, he says.
“We, as citizens, must be very careful with the narratives produced by Washington,” he warns. “It is necessary to learn to analyze them critically and to distance us from what we are told. This process is neither easy nor fast, because unfortunately not only the Mexican government repeats these narratives, but the media They also repeat them, and sometimes the institutions and other actors press them. Fate About Fentanyl, about “chapitos” and about the criminal empires of the cartels. It is very difficult to escape all this. “
A war that has lost more than 100,000 people
More than 100,000 people have been missing in Mexico since 1964. The national registration has disappeared and unprofessional for people has now gone beyond that, which is evidence of the country’s severe situation. Most of them were missing since 2006, when the Philippe Calderon government, who took the army to the streets to combat organized crime violence, began.
“Many of the most serious anti -narcotics policy impacts we have suffered in Mexico for decades. More than half a million murder since the start of militarization with President Calderon, more than 100,000 compulsory disappearance. We know that that Not all of these violence is loaded, most importantly, against poor, racist, brown, who live in the most deprived areas of the country, “Zavala, that when people are worried about what Trump says Does. “It is as if we haven’t lived for many years, there is a really serious wave of violence in the country.”
According to the researcher, military violence is often described as a kind of social control as the management of violence. “You don’t want to see militarization in areas such as Condesa or Roma, but on the margins of Mexico City, in the poorest areas. Violence on the margins, in the poorest neighborhoods, where not even enough, happens Zavala. On the media or human rights institutions.
What should be surprised at us is the high amount of violence we experience, as a context of what is happening right now, not what is still obtained. “I think we still do not fully understand that this violence has a specific class dimension,” he said.
Solution: Eliminate Country
The decision made by Calderón 16 years ago to hand over the military responsibility for public security in several areas of the country has shown us its fatal consequences. Both Enrique Peña Nieto and Andrés Manuel López Obrrador, during the relevant election campaign, pledged to bring us peace, security and civilization. However, once power, both proposals for integration, through the law and even the constitutional reforms, presented a pattern of military public security. The situation does not appear to be changing with the Claudia Shinboum government.
Thus, the recent Mexican presidents have maintained a “peace and security” policy based on a military strategy, justifying it on the operational inability of police companies to counter organized crime.
“I agree with the view that the drugs should be eliminated, addiction to them, all of these, but in my opinion, most of the violence in Mexico is not necessarily related to drug trafficking, but rather a militarization experience. And I think there is a solid empirical data. There was a direct link between the military occupation, the presence of the armed forces and the increase in killings and the compulsory disappearance. “
