Drug trafficking and conflicts with the United States
October 17, 2020
Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero
Hardly surprised by the refusal of the Free Mexico Party of Margarita Zavala and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa as well as the passing to three political cartoon institutes, the news of the arrest made to General Salvador Cienfuegos, former Secretary of National Defense in the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto, constitutes another flash of amazement. It confirms a change of interests in the perspective of US collaboration with the technocratic groups of the Mexican political system in exchange for the nationalists. It even seems that history repeats itself. During the six-year term of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, a similar situation sank the decorum of the old revolutionary guard.
In both situations, the common denominator lies in the betrayal of the US security agencies to their Mexican allies. Military, police, politicians and drug traffickers; They work for US intelligence, then get retired by US intelligence to create new enemies and continue to run the game. The only ruler who has understood the game is former President Vicente Fox, it is better to legalize drugs and that the Americans come to leave remittances. No bullet, no drop of blood, has been worthwhile in the fight against drug trafficking. The United States is the Great Capo and should not be taken seriously.
The well-known phrase that the United States has interests, not friends; it is exemplified in the experience of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. The refusal of his party by the INE and later by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power, show the orphanhood in which the civilist side of the Catholic humanists is found. Beyond the confrontations with AMLO and internally in the PAN, Felipe Calderón has long lost the support of the United States and, like other characters in Latin American history, is left with the route of self-exile in the closet of Mexican presidentialism or starting a route anti-American where he exposes the vileness of Yankee pragmatism on the issue of drugs.
The Americans used Felipe Calderón, like the Panamanian Manuel Noriega, and then they defenestrated him in the garbage can. As president, Calderón brought the militarization of public security to the zenith as requested by the United States, Mexico was structured as a state of exception and, the mark of the six-year term, will be a failed, fratricidal and bloody war. Likewise, the six-year period of death and violence seems to be the objective of the United States in the Mexican scenario.
Calderón almost broke with the United States because it was clear to him that Mexico is, and will be, the Vietnam of drugs. In other words, the war on drug trafficking will never be won by the Mexican State, never, at least, when there is another option for the United States. If the Mexican military are murderers, drug traffickers and criminals, it is because North America puts it that way in its geopolitical strategy. The biggest Latin American drug traffickers have been members of the CIA. The problem is that the United States takes the money and the drugs, but leaves us the dead and the grudges.
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, García Luna, and Salvador Cienfuegos will remain in the cluster of politicians who cooperated with the US drug government and, later, were left to their fate. The possibility that the former president also steps in jail remains in parentheses.
The most tragic thing, however, is the contextual condemnation imposed on Mexico: to remain the space for the distribution, trafficking and exploitation of drugs for the benefit of the US economy of war and consumption.
Behind the frustrated presidency of Felipe Calderón, there remains the American government that has no interest in making Mexico change and only maintains the supine intelligence that a wall can save it from chaos. It is necessary to shout to the DEA, CIA and FBI, etc., that not only the southern United States is Mexican territory, there are hundreds of cartel cells that will soon be narco-terrorists; the failed state is not a state, it is a virus that spreads. Muslim, Afro-American radicalism will soon be accompanied by Hispanic radicalism.
Mexico is more than a mafia republic (Escalante Gonzalbo), it is a narcosystem that advances without control, unlike the United States. The war that began under Calderonism is not going to stop, it is getting worse and will get worse if the United States continues to betray its Mexican collaborators. The president of Mexico, the political parties and civil society have the obligation to amend the geopolitical vocation assigned to us by North America and stop feasting on the fate of the García Luna and Cienfuegos. The problem is that the United States and the extreme right reproduce them in droves while the country falls apart and fills with blood and graves.Who certifies the United States in its fight against drugs? What American bosses have fallen in its war on drugs? Why does the United States not stop trafficking in weapons for organized crime groups in Mexico? Why does the United States not allow Mexican agents and military to act within its territory?
Mexico is in a low intensity war (A. Schedler) in which the United States is cause and effect. North America forces the rulers, personally, to go out to kill mafia bosses and, on the other hand, the American intelligence pacts with them. In the middle are the disappeared, the dead, and other criminal taxonomy that generalized violence accustoms us to.
America is not trustworthy. Perhaps that is why Felipe Calderón was about to close his embassy permanently. America is unfair.
The crisis of the party system confirms that Mexico is returning to an era of caudillismo and factionalism, similar to the experience of the 19th century and to that of Latin America when there was a coup every four years. The parties were simply pulverized and the PRI's cohesive cement no longer hits anything.
The political factionalism that will continue demands electoral and government systems that force cooperation or, at least, the clear definition of majorities.
The refusal to form political parties is illogical, in addition to allowing those who want to join, they must also withdraw the public resources that are assigned to them, if someone wants to fight for power that they bet their money.