The cover depends on the White House

 The cover depends on the White House

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

Governance in Mexico depends on the geopolitical interests of the United States. The conflict that has been generated between the models of authoritarian nationalism and technocratic-neoliberalism regarding control over Mexican society has nothing to do with the guidelines for growth or development that suit Mexicans, but rather what dictates the North American hegemonic vision. The next ruler of Mexico must submit to the subterfuges of colonialism.

Although for some it is unthinkable and catastrophic that the United States decides to have a country like Mexico at its side, seen the issue from the North American geopolitical and rational perspective, there is nothing more convenient for the empire. What kind of country is more in the neighborhood of the United States? A newly industrialized middle-class country or a mafia republic? The perspective of drug trafficking, for example, no matter how criminal and dirty it may be for society; it comes in handy in the global geopolitics of North America. The profits from drug trafficking are essential in a Darwinian competition scenario as the global economic model results.

Drug trafficking is Mexico's true complementary economy towards the United States. The flow of thousands of tons of drugs, thousands of weapons, and billions of dollars are not invisible. The authorities cooperate in the exchange of these products and Mexico is the main shortcut to the North American informal economy to subsidize its imperialism. How to convince North America that our country can contribute to the regional economy wealth other than that produced by emigration and drugs? It is impossible in the short term.

The transformation projects of the Mexican economy are one hundred years or more, and require changing the colonial structure of the country. The economic need of the United States and the challenges it faces in international relations, however, do not allow time for pauses or recesses where the country's economic infrastructure gets a chance to modernize. The Mexican narco-republic is not going to disappear as long as the United States does not find new ways to “democratically” sponsor its hegemony. Before the globalization period, the romanticization of the American superpower included highlighting the role of the American taxpayer; however, neoliberalism brought the narco democracy that has not been able to detach itself from the American dream. To bring liberal capitalist democracy everywhere, America has had to turn its taxpayer into a drug addict and its allies into drug gangsters.

García Luna and the Mexican succession

 García Luna and the Mexican succession

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

The trial in the United States of America against the former Secretary of Public Security during the government of Felipe Calderón may have various purposes depending on the geopolitical convenience of North American imperialism. If the American Union conceives that its world hegemony is extinguished and it is healthy to concentrate on continental exceptionalism to better face a new Cold War after the fact, then García Luna will be evidenced as the architect of corruption in Mexican narco-neoliberalism from Vicente Fox to Enrique Peña grandson; which would end up sinking the presidential aspirations of the Mexican right. On the contrary, if the US Narco-Empire decides to continue confronting Russia, China, Brazil, India and the Middle East, to finance the war economy that the Pentagon is absorbing, ergo, Genaro García Luna will be Commander Oliver North of the PRIANRD, now indispensable to implant bureaucratic-technocratic-military-narcocaciquil.

The Mexican-American double standard regarding narcoterrorism depends on the circumstances. The United States financed the anti-communism of its period of containment with respect to the Soviet Union with drugs from Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, the Iran-Contra scandal is a small sample of a whole narco-economy that feeds an extensive military-industrial complex. The Mexican political class and other distinctive fiefdoms of our structural condition benefited in spurts from anti-communism, as well as from drug trafficking. The influx of dollars that consolidated political parties, universities, dependencies and liberal democracies; It didn't just come from the American taxpayer.

Even though AMLO and Morena are going to use the trial against García Luna as a way of demonstrating the opposition's links with narcopolitics, the truth is that -despite the irrefutable evidence of the case- the imperialist reason of state will prevail against what be.

What must be considered important for the future of the relationship between Mexico and the United States, mainly from the national perspective, is the way in which our country will be judged. Mexico is assimilated to a Terrorist Drug Trafficking Zombie that offers the possibility -as it happened in the 19th century- of being a new training camp for the US military.

It is not only the insane claim of Donald Trump to launch missiles against the narco-municipalities from the different North American bases and aircraft carriers. It is the real cause of narcoterrorism for the benefit of the pentagonist war economy that is increasingly considering intervening in Mexico because of the prevailing anarchy and ungovernability.

The authoritarian nationalism/military technocratic bureaucratism pendulum has always been linked to the narco. Everyone has their García Luna or Oliver North.

MORENA/PRIANRD: No escape from the black circle

 MORENA/PRIANRD: No escape from the black circle

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

Although the specter of governability begins to be represented as a threat to the Fourth Transformation, over time it can be seen that the anomias and pathologies that the country accumulates have been determined by the United States of America. Since the fateful years of López Mateos, social issues and national stability have been complicated, with the passing of the six-year terms, the border of chaos has been reached. It is impossible for the current six-year term to effectively slow down a process that has been accumulating for decades; but it cannot be said that he has not done anything.

If Mexico falls, the Yankee empire too. This is a truism that is evident in the Pentagon, the CIA, the DEA and other agencies that oversee US power. The point is that the Mexican political class also knows it and, for better or for worse, they have jointly decided that the country, the Mexican Republic, should be established as the backyard of the North Americans. It is true that Mexico is dangerously close to the condition of a failed state thanks to neoliberalism, but it is that it is convenient for imperialism; Have we forgotten who canceled the possibility of having a Japan below the Rio Grande? How many million tons of drugs does the US need to be in harmony? The economic superpower has all the technology at its disposal, but why does it need fifty million Mexican “wet slaves” for its fertile economy, plus those who crossed today?

America is not going to change; no matter how much the neoliberal and conservative right refer to themselves, to their style of governing, as more Swedish, Dutch, Spanish; In the end, they end up the same as always, paying the flat fee to the global super cop for running the club and nothing more.

Manuel Camacho Solís, Antonio Velasco Piña and Pablo González Casanova have a singular coincidence: political power and governability in Mexico reside in the military, in no one else. What is the difference between an authoritarian nationalist regime (populism/pricomunist Guadalupano) and another technocratic-bureaucratic-military regime (neoliberalism)? The victim is society. Perhaps the government of the 4T has done something for the most needy in the country; however, neoliberals only want a welfare state for the rich. In general, the country is at the disposal of the United States; the administrators are changed, but the armed forces take care of the establishment. Even a civil war in Mexico is bearable for North America, but the invasion of the United States towards our country would constitute a defeat like Vietnam; the guerrilla war would be inexhaustible for the American Union, as well as the constant migration of temporary groups.

Mexico, in contemporary times, has always lived on the brink of chaos, no matter how ungovernable the Lopezobrador government is blamed, the neoliberals did not have the country any better and things will never improve.

When we focus on Mexican ungovernability, one wonders who manages it best for the US. No matter how ungovernable you want to manifest in Mexico, it goes as far as North America supports. Even if the extreme right longs for it with all its humanist soul, Mexico will not reach the levels of Peru, where the criollos can go around killing indigenous people left and right. Ungovernability in Mexico can reach the levels of the Mexican Revolution or the Cristero War; something else would mean a guerrilla war that could infect the southern United States and could trigger an American civil war, a flank for the real enemies of the United States: Islam, Russia or China, even Europe.

Has the Guadalupan pri communism of the 4T for the US ceased to be useful? No. On the contrary. Given the balances of ungovernability, authoritarian nationalism is better than military bureaucratic technocracy; unless the United States wants to make Mexico a real hell worse than Ukraine. Can the PRIANRD bring us to the level of the Ukraine? Yes, and they are capable of worse. Denmark or Sweden represent the sick beliefs of the aspirationists, it is not a utopia but a madness; they point to the populists as crazy, but to make the Anti-liberal Spains liberal is true marijuana.

Mexico is Mexico, and as long as you have the United States as your neighbor, you will always be far from God. Even if the PRIANRD triumphs in the next elections of 2024, the Mexican Army is the only link in Mexican governance, the neoliberals will continue to militarize the country, as much or more as AMLO has done. And, like good hypocrites, they are going to shed more blood as they did in Calderonism.

Anarchy is the limit for the absolute domination of the United States in Mexico. Meanwhile, only hell is the option of the false right and left.

Puebla and the resignation of the security agency

 Puebla and the resignation of the security agency

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

A few weeks ago, almost days after taking office, the recent governor of Puebla Sergio Salomón Céspedes petitioned the municipal presidents to allocate 25% of the public budget to security. However, the situation that has been generated in Sinaloa and the data on insecurity in Puebla itself, reveal the null capacity of the mayors to support the well-being of their citizens in a dignified manner, as well as the incomprehensible request of the governor. Only in compliance with correspondence related to police/citizens, most of Puebla's municipalities do not comply. What other monstrosity can arise when talking about training, protocols, weapons or infrastructure?

Before the death of Miguel Barbosa, Puebla occupied - at the level of state entities - one of the most serious spaces of insecurity, for this reason, although Salomón Céspedes's suggestion has a positive intention, the results will not benefit Puebla. The political scientist Mauricio Saldaña of the ICGDE-BUAP, provided scientific elements to demonstrate the delicate level that the crime of huachicol, drug trafficking, femicides, money laundering, impunity, kidnappings and extortion has reached; as well as the importance of building intelligent public policies to, at least, do "something" against the crime that has prevailed in Puebla for several years.

The study by María Amparo Casar, entitled “The municipality, an institution designed for failure”, has been constantly referred to, so that it serves to show that what has happened at the state level: feuderalism; It is also reproduced at the municipal level. It could well be called alcaldehueteria, but the social sciences have already worked on the subject long before and, instead of meaning useless neologisms, the pre-Columbian word cacicazgo is taken.

It seems that the state government does not want to assume its responsibility and proposes a gentle request to the characters who lead crime on a micro scale. Legislator Castillo, who heads the presidency of the permanent commission, could well report on these circumstances as he belongs to one of the most violent and criminal regions of the entity. This is what has been seen in the experience of Michoacán, Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Sinaloa. The narcopolitics have more than surrounded the municipal presidents, as it happens in many states of the country and Puebla is no exception.

Federalism has served to expose the pathologies of patrimonialism, cacicazgo and clientelism.

Since the administration of Rafael Moreno Valle, there has been a contradiction between state and local governments regarding the issue of municipal police and security. The big loser has been society and the results are all the time in the red note. The increases in insecurity grow relentlessly due to the incapacity and corruption that prevail in municipal governments to which the governor "tries" to persuade.

Public safety in Puebla is already one of the main problems that future candidates for state government should seriously consider. It is essential to avoid solutions that have failed in the past, municipal police are not good for much, and the most important thing is withdraw the budget from the mayors of the most violent areas of the state to better develop the state police, or develop interstate programs that in the past have served to prevent the cockroach effect of crime. The most important thing is that the state government must not continue to dismantle, as Moreno Valle did and the subsequent rulers could not avoid it, the judicial structure necessary to link crimes and apply the law; Trusting in the ability of mayors -mainly within the state- to fight crime is akin to handing over Rome to Nero

As the electoral process for the governorship in Puebla approaches, the unity of Morena is called into question, but also the circumstances in which local interests have struggled to retain power. The dispute for political power in Puebla does not go unnoticed due to the growth of organized crime, particularly the issue of Huachicol and drug trafficking. Just as ICGDE-BUAP political scientist Mauricio Saldaña has numerically highlighted the growth of groups and criminal typology in the entity and, even, in the state capital; Now, the journalist Francisco Ramos Zerón in Reforma, involves a study on the criminal collaboration of some officials from the time of the marines and up to the present with these issues that have placed Puebla in the most serious levels of corruption, impunity and violence. It is enough to remember the passage of Facundo Rosas through Puebla and the collaboration with the accused in North America Genaro García Luna. The Huachicol has reached not only important extensions of the state but also a wide power.

Unfortunately, the narco and the huachicol dot several members of the Puebla political class. Those who are faithfully militating in their parties, but also the defectors. Ardelio Vargas has collaborated with all the political parties in the entity to reduce these negative conditions that affect various regions of the state, and nothing has been done. Is it because someone cooperates?, as the narco corridos say.

Francisco Ramos's note should encourage the political class of Puebla to inhibit their collaboration with crime and corruption, to do something about crime and accidents that have cost -and are costing- many lives.

It is true that barbarism could do little against Huachicol and drug trafficking. The delicate conflicts that have affected the holders of the Executive Branch in Puebla involve carefully observing the evolution of crime. Apparently, the security situation in Puebla is uncontrollable and nobody wants to do anything, but it is everyone's job, mainly the government. Of the government that all the political parties have represented and not only the current one. The rugged barbosismo could not take control of governance, avilacamachismo and morenovallismo remain strongly rooted in poblana life.

The relentless drug war

 The relentless drug war

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

Although the Morenista government has been cornered for breaking the campaign promise to return the army to the barracks, the advance and strength of criminal groups in various entities is an indication that, outside the federation, there is no local government capable of protect the citizenry. Insecurity is a constant in local governments, more than in the federal administration.

The lack of clarity and transparency in the resources executed by local governments, mainly in state and municipal governments ravaged by the war between groups dedicated to the transfer of narcotic and psychotropic drugs, especially in the regions governed by the opposition, manifests the need to greater centralization in security policies and the disappearance of powers in those entities where governments should simply resign – or have done so – due to their impotence in the face of the force of crime.

The increasing progress of the protagonists in the drug war shows the need to increase budgets to develop security policies and strengthen the national bodies in charge of operating legitimate violence. Social readaptation centers and rural municipalities are structured on the basis of crime and require radical measures to be amended. State governments are more than permissive with local crime, feuderalism has been verified on several occasions and several state executives have been directly related to the mafias.

By 2024, regardless of the party that wins, the new six-year term must recognize the perpetuity of the state of exception that Mexico is experiencing and consider measures to strengthen the federal government and reduce the incompetence of local governments. Feuderalism was the true face of corrupting neoliberalism that was creating unpunished and criminal oligarchies, as well as exposing society to impressive levels of insecurity.

The reengineering of security in Mexico implies recognizing where the budgets must be exercised and the accounts that governments must render. Beyond the criminal ties and mafia sponsorships that officials in charge of civil order have, security indicators must also be considered for the revocation of mandate. The Sicilianization of Mexico is imminent and without serious proposals for public order, the reality of the Failed State also leaves our borders.

The exploits of the groups that fight in the drug war prevent any public policy from working. Local governments are ineffective, corrupt and incompetent, it is up to the federal government to be an accomplice or censor of these events.