The simony of the Law
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
The war against drug trafficking should have started in the public prosecutor's offices and the courts. It has always been known in Mexico that one of the main defects of the social order, and which has worsened exponentially during the neoliberal era, lies in the rule of law. During the last thirty years, the urgency has been established, indispensable to say the least, of a reform of the judiciary that finally allows justice to be established in the country and to abandon so much corruption, genocide and impunity that distinguish a country like Mexico because of the judges who represent the legal system.
Due to the above, it is incomprehensible that the government of Veracruz is attacked with such virulence for trying to correct the conduct of the representatives of the judiciary (state and federal) in that entity. Surely the powers that be and, mainly, the red circle, yearn for a narco-government or for it to be the order of mafia boss servitude, the one that imposes on the citizenry. It is enough to review the impunity rates, the number of cases reconsidered by judges, the sale of legal instruments for the acquittal of powerful criminals -there is not much difference between judges and the ecclesiastical hierarchy- and more elements of the Chicano legal tradition, to understand that the executive head of Veracruz is doing the right thing.
The variables of impunity and rule of law are not minor data when talking about democratic consolidation. They are central elements. At the very moment of the creation of the Federal Electoral Institute and the political alternation in the year 2000, there was talk of the need for transitional justice and zero tolerance for impunity. The advancement of democracy in a significant way depends on this, not only on procedural elections.
The country has delayed legal reform for decades and the consequence has been a situation of impunity, low-intensity warfare, criminality and femicides, which puts us on the brink of a failed state. A few days ago, a study that seeks to delegitimize the Fourth Transformation pointed out that 80% of the national territory is in the hands of organized crime; Apart from the government, what is the responsibility of the judiciary in this social configuration? The issue of impunity leaves no room for doubt. Mexico is a territory of impunity thanks to the judiciary.
Despite the outrageous corruption of the judiciary, the media does not take notice. Few talk about the families of governors, magistrates, and other public officials who control the state and federal judiciary. Nobody talks about the certification of the legal career and much less about the transparency in the trials that are controlled by the most powerful legal and corporate firms.
The red circle and the media exhibit themselves fully when defending the corrupting power of the national legal sphere, they only have to comment to the people as Queen Marie Antoinette did. And don't be surprised when the Mexican people respond to you in the same way as the French Revolution.