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.