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.

Miguel Barbosa and the Whitexicans

Miguel Barbosa and the Whitexicans

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
25/05/2020
https://www.semanarioelreto.com/single-post/2020/05/25/Miguel-Barbosa-y-los-Whitexicans

Puebla has been living, for a couple of years, a conflict that, in an increasingly constant way, seems to lead to ungovernability and disorder. Morenovallismo tried to found a neo-avilacamachismo based on an authoritarian consensus that forgot about the changes in consciousness and structure that the country has experienced. With everything and the jacket of political alternation, technocratic caciquismo did not have enough political and economic resources to consolidate a route to national political power. Circumstances forced morenovallismo to defend, with serious violence, the spaces that, eccentrically, it considered to be its forerunner. Fate eliminated the possibility of neo-avilacamachismo and also generated a fragmentation of the old cliques, survivors and widows who, apparently, still remain in radical competition where they increasingly forget about politics and align themselves in purges that aggravate the situation. from Puebla.

The tacit agreement of these cliques is to prevent the construction of a democratic regime in the state. Factions only tend to multiply and show who is the best traitor. Stability, equity, justice, security, growth and development, move away from our environment.

The authoritarian modernization of Morenovallismo left the entity in a critical situation. An unjust centralization, prone to looting, abuse and dispossession, hurt the municipalities and regions that, since then, have been victims of crime, emigration, poverty and misgovernment.

After the rugged electoral process that allowed MORENA to gain control of the executive and legislative powers, far from reducing the aforementioned situation, it has done everything to make things worse. The state government is solely responsible, since its policy of alliances and administrative laziness, generates the scene of a social nightmare.

Miguel Barbosa cannot accuse the Right of a dirty war when he has decided to make them part of his government and agree with them on future candidacies and economic policies. Barbosa is more an ally of Claudio X. González, Ricardo Salinas and the PRIANRD mafia, than a politician aware of the social project with which MORENA became president of the republic. The state executive is increasingly distancing himself from AMLO and incorporating collaborators from the coup trend against the Mexican Republic. His criticisms of the Reaction are ridiculous because he has filled entire Departments of public administration with reactionaries, he is confronted with the ghost of morenovallismo but with some of the surviving factions he aspires to control the state. And still wondering why things go wrong? It would be necessary to ask the governor why he wants to harm the presidency of the republic? Are the falcon cherubs singing to him that he can replace AMLO? Have the whitexicans already told you that he looks like Benito Juárez? Hopefully he will learn from the examples of Mario Marín and Moreno Valle. They are always the same.

Puebla will be one of the entities most affected by COVID-19 in all aspects, of that size will be its contribution to the national crisis. The responsibility does not lie with the Federation, the fault lies with Miguel Barbosa for deviating from the 4T project and confronting the President of the Republic. The state government cannot hide that it has agreed with the "whitexicans", that amalgam of religious fundamentalisms, gender radicalisms, business anarchisms and oligarchic separatists.

The lack of support in Puebla for the Federation's measures is a mistake. It is a vile not to join the enormous work that the economic reconstruction of the state and the country requires, just because the detachment from the 4T allows a consideration that those who "historically" have betrayed Mexico. The political polarization of the last years in the entity has not allowed education, industry, justice, transportation, health and employment to function at minimum levels. In front of COVID-19 Puebla is in an alarming situation. Not even the Puebla immigrants in the US, who are among the most affected groups, have received condescension from the government. While politics here destroys everything, they support the economy without complaint. The state public administration is engaged in black campaigning, self-sabotage, corruption, and survival at any cost.

This emergency requires a lot of work, consensus and collaboration with society. If Mexico sinks, no coup d'etat will save Puebla. Our entity requires governance, public policies, social work, wealth distribution, and health care. Authoritarian decrees are equivalent to demonstrating the voluntary disorganization that prevails in the state government. Miguel Barbosa has fallen into the fascist blindness and seems to anticipate the "Year of Hidalgo" that many opportunists of the bureaucracy yearn to be part of the corrupt oligarchy.

Humanity has a Hobbesian test in front of it that has been treated with a lot of irresponsibility in Puebla, the state public administration is not working and it is dishonest to join separatists and coup leaders. No right-wing government will be able to sustain the country if the republic falls, no government will be left standing if the cartels decide to take control of things in the face of the anarchic famine that has appeared in various places since the narco-war. Mexico is more than united to the economic policy of the United States, Puebla is not outside of Mexico. This is not the time for the whitexicans to form their country "Maria Auxiliadora", the approaching humanitarian crisis in America - the continent - forces republican unity to understand national geopolitics. Hopefully time will not reach us anymore.