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.