Trump wants a war with cartels — and he just might get one

This raises fundamental questions. “If they are going to designate traffickers as Narco-Terrorists, have they also included those involved in these networks? Because we are not only the famous networks, but also the laundry, money launderers, happy weapons And structures, many of which are interporte in the United States. There is a huge complexity in defining where a cartel begins and where it ends. There is a dispersion of the two sides involved in drug trafficking narcoterranism to talk about something vague and imprecise. This term is not supported by concrete evidence; rather, its use is eminently political, “says Épala.

According to Zavala, the narrative allows figures like President Trump to use the concept of Narcoterrisman as a tool of intimidation, threat of the Mexican government. “Instead of the description of reality, Narcoterranno, specter narcoterro, on the political laughs that are used to force Mexico from air:” Detta.

An executive order to intervene militarily in Mexico

Intervening militarily in Mexican territory with selective raids targeting the cartels is something that has been on the US radar screen for some time. But analysts would argue that would be a shot in the foot for the Trump administration.

“Using the concept of Narcoterricrismo, the United States Government camps in Mexico of the United States. This is something complicated, because it damages a lot of the bilateral relationship, which is very anguished. It is almost inconceivable (the idea of ​​Aggression military), “Zavala explains. “I believe that in addition to uvadore, the Mexican government has generally aligned because the end of our security policy is always subordinated and returned; even subblunced by the United States.”

This Wednesday, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that the secretary of the economy in the seat, had a telephone conversation with the secret of the State Marco Rubio. She did not provide details of the conversation, but said it was “a very cordial conversation” and they discussed “migration and security issues”. Rubio said that he would prefer that any action, any decision taken by Washington have the consent, the collaboration of the Government of Mexico.

“Cartels don’t exist”

Oswaldo ívala (Ciudad Juarez, 1975) specialized in Mexican media narrative, and has an alternative vision of the Narco phenomenon. I believe that the image of the power of the posters is exaggerated and sponsored by the State. The author of The drug wars of the imaginary United States: the power: the chest in organized, and the political history of narcararratori (1975-2012)explains to cable that the war against drug trafficking is generally built in fantastic concepts, happily an imagination that presents the traffic trot in an alarmist way.

“The Government of the has managed to Great ability to create a list of concepts, samples and are just say for the places of the United States, but also in Mexico wants, an organization that becomes, an organization or another. the center of In the 80s, for example, it was the caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Wallardo. Today, the CONVERAREVAU IN U FICTANTON And, above all, the Sinaloa cardboard “, Zavala Explains.

L’zavala argued that the narratives used by the US government are ways of simplifying a complex problem, giving a common sense to the debate that otherwise has more complicated. “If we take into account the large amount of drug consumption that occurs in the United States, the fact that the traffic and high school organizations and, in many cases, are more dangerous than the drug dealers, the discussion is much more complex for the Mexican panorama. What these narrate, then, is to simplify the situation according to the primary camp, of us not politically, diplomatically, and even militarily in Mexico, “He says.

“As citizens we must be very attentive to the narratives that are generated by Washington,” He observed. “He is learning to analyze critically and the distance, we were not told. This vote is not only stolen, but also the least recalcitrant, and Sometimes the institutions and other actors push them. And, to complicate things even more , a popular culture is created that feeds these ideas: Today they already exist rabid About Fentanyl, about ‘chapitos’ and about l’, identical suppositions of the cartels. It is very difficult to escape from all this. “

A war that left more than 100,000 people missing

More than 100,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1964, when the count began. The national registry of the kingdom has disappeared and not suitable for people has for months now exceed this figure, which is evidence of the grave situation in the country. Most of these people were registered as missing, that the administration of Felipe Calderón, who took the experience of the violence of the violence of the force of violence, began.

“Many of the most serious effects of the anti-drug policy that we have been blowing in Mexico for decades. More than 100,000 disappeared from the president. We know that all the violence is discharged, overturned for all, against, Snizialized, brown , brown, who live “As if we had not already lived, for years, a really serious wave of violence in the country.”

According to the researcher, military violence is often expressed as a form of social control, as a management of violence. “You don’t live to see militarization in areas like the county, but in the seas of Mexico, in the most important areas. The violence, where there is not even adequate monitoring by the media or the institutions of the directions of Humans,” Zavala says.

What should surprise us, Zavala says, are the very high rates of violence, we are overwhelmed by what is already happening, not by something that is yet to come. “I don’t think we’re going yet that this violence has the ability to clarify is not generalized violence, but systematic violence, but systematic and direct sectors of society:”, he says.

The solution: Demilitarize the country

The decision taken by the calderón 16 years ago to weaken the army with the public responsibility security in many works of ears of the country. Both Enrique Peña Nieto and érés Manuel López obradad, during the electoral campaigns, to return a dough, security, and civilization. However, once in power, be presented proposals to consider, through legislation and also constitutional reinforcements, the security model. The military. The situation does not seem to change with the administration of Claudia Sheinbaum.

In this way, the recent presidents of Mexico

“I agree with the view that drugs need to be treated unknown, additive, all that. But in my opinion, most of the violence in Mexico and it is not necessary necessarily to drug trafficking, but to the experience of militarization itself. And I think there is solid empirical data to support this idea. We know that there is a “mitrization in Mexico,” Zavala explains the army, our killing sprees were all over the country, the presence of the Armed Forces, and the increase and foaming forced.”