Money: The Objective
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Although the US government has abundantly accused Mexico of economic and criminal charges, the data released by the White House regarding money laundering in Mexico seem to represent US interests more than the health of its youth. The informal economy has always predominated in our country; neoliberal integration was nothing less than the absorption of Mexican forces and services at the lowest possible cost to the United States. The nature of such a relationship can only be explained by informality, which is too close to corruption.
Over the years, various financial institutions—from banks to currency exchange houses—have been implicated in the money laundering phenomenon. The evidence is not conclusive, but simply accusations by US authorities regarding obvious economic aspects. Mexico has been the North American Sicily for almost a century; the illegal economy is more than absolute; but there is a historical co-responsibility that extends from employment, services, and every possible proportion of the exchange of goods.
What more does His Majesty Donald Trump want from Mexico? Undoubtedly, the pressure on the national government will end because Claudia Sheinbaum builds transnational policies to significantly reduce the trafficking of drugs and people in a good, cheap, beautiful, and reliable way; for free, of course. There are likely more US demands along the same lines.
Trump is not only a TACO but also unpredictable, and therefore, the Fourth Transformation cannot entrust governability solely to political patronage. A governance project that combines Trumpist demands and economic growth is essential. The Mexican economy's gravitational dependence on the United States is total, and only through viable alternative strategies will US surveillance be reduced.
The Donald Trump administration doesn't care about reducing drug use in its country, but rather about Mexico's servitude. The Morena government must accelerate transnational public policy to meet Mr. Carrot's demands, request extraterritoriality for Mexican governance; or, alternatively, open the door to the Americans and let them resolve in their own way the problems they consider to be caused by our country. A Fourth Transformation waiting for Trumpism, or governmental inaction in the face of US grievances, warns of a social conflict arising from the economic and security crisis that no populism will be able to contain; see the cases of California, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Michoacán, Guanajuato, and some other states that are dangerously close to these atypical situations.
