Organized crime

The violent manifestations of drug trafficking in Mexico are evident in recent weeks. Federal, state and municipal authorities only have to admit this criminal presence in the populations they govern. In Mexico, these rulers are governed by the will of the majority vote. Nobody imposed them, nor did organized crime name them, not even the origin of the financing of their campaigns is in drug trafficking, as determined by electoral bodies and courts in electoral matters. These democratically elected authorities HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE to stop the violence that is flooding the country. In this space, it has been about drug trafficking on several occasions, and its desecration of the sacredness of the State: the security of citizens. In 2009 it was done, and, in the end, a politician was mentioned. Allow me kind reader, today that this politician is president of the republic, to return to it: “Meanwhile, commentators, editorialists, columnists, professors, researchers, public officials and politicians, are only concerned with the electoral circus, the national and international economic sphere and the fight against drug trafficking. As if that matters to the tens of millions of Mexicans living in poverty and precariousness… That part of the Mexican people does not need, nor does it know… Who knows what happens in that part of the country, in deep Mexico, where the indigenous merge with poverty? Where time does not pass or is measured as in urban areas… It is very scarce, if not non-existent, the space of the communication agenda of the federal government that poverty and inequality … Everything is filled by the disease of American society and its vice for cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana and heroin. Everything is corrupt police, violence between groups that control drug trafficking to fill that need for consumption of those millions of American addicts. It is heard repeatedly: Drug trafficking already threatens social coexistence and has the State in check… the lines that expose the infiltration of organized crime into American society are strange. The tumult of space in the media for drug trafficking leaves no room to even mention the tens of millions of dispossessed people living in poverty in Mexico. To that part of the population that… it does not measure the time in sessions of the Stock Exchange or the exchange of pesos for dollar, which does not care how much drugs are put through the nose, mouth or intravenously by Americans … Is there anyone in the Mexican State wondering about them? Or, they are all busy following the electoral percentages and the jaloneos for the billions of dollars produced by drug trafficking. Of politicians and AMLOLuego is the way in which the… Political forces are going to face an eventual irruption of that deep Mexico on the national scene. The right does not know where they are, for them they are part of the servitude and only fill a space when they become very cheap labor. The left leaves them aside in their immersion in the electoral struggle and new access to the spaces of public power. The PRI contemplates and knows them, more his distance from power has him more busy in his return than in making a public speech of attention to those tens of millions of Mexicans. When will that part of the people be on the national agenda of the national parties? Finally, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has already passed through many of the municipalities where those millions of Mexicans live. AMLO has gone to visit almost every municipality in the country. To explain to them that he is there. The remaining municipalities, those that have uses and customs to choose their authorities, will visit them this year. Is AMLO seeing this? Is he the only Mexican politician who brings the dispossessed on his agenda? (Reading, THE DEBATE, 15/Mar/2009). Paragraphs: Today and the peopleMore than 13 years later, the question remains: What has the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador done in three years and 8 months for those tens of millions of dispossessed Mexicans? Beyond populist discourses and remedies. What has been done? What is a reality is that today organized crime attacks public security. The media cannot avoid the news of violence and explosions in Mexican cities. While tens of millions still have no alternative to alleviate inequality and poverty. Since the beginning of President López Obrador’s six-year term, the Mexican Petroleum Fund for Stabilization and Development has been a source of financing for the populist and paternalistic support programs of this six-year term. Pending an analysis of this, beyond political positions.



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