Mexican Narco-State

Mexican Narco-State

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Although it has been pointed out that imperialist semiotics establishes inescapable marks on its enemies and spaces of conquest, this argument is inaccurate when it comes to arguments such as those pertaining to the Sinaloa Cartel, which claims to have controlled the Mexican state for at least fifty years. The magnitude of this accusation has not been grasped by the Mexican government or the idea of ​​building justice in our country.

Amid the disturbing revelations stemming from drug trafficking captured in the United States about the corruption rooted in the Mexican state, the country faces a crucial moment that demands a firm and coherent response. These statements, which suggest drug trafficking has controlled the power structure for decades, cannot be ignored. However, the solution lies not in foreign intervention, but in strengthening its own institutions and reaffirming national sovereignty. Mexico must take the initiative, demonstrating its capacity to face these challenges autonomously and effectively.

Collaboration with the United States is essential, but it must be based on mutual respect and strategic cooperation, not subordination. Instead of an invasion of US justice, a common front must be established against organized crime, sharing intelligence, technology, and best practices. This proactive approach will allow the Mexican government to wage a head-on fight against drug trafficking and corruption without relinquishing control over its own destiny. The country's governability is at a crossroads, and the only dignified way out is through a profound reengineering of the state. Superficial reforms are insufficient; a break with past practices is required to build a new public administration. The fight against drug trafficking can be the convening of a National Agreement for stability, reconciliation, and economic growth in the country.

Claudia Sheinbaum's administration has the monumental task of leading this transformation. It must implement public policies that not only combat crime but also discourage the economic gravitation toward the United States that fuels immediate crime. By offering collective incentives and opportunities through solid social and economic programs, the Mexican state can create a more resilient social fabric that is less vulnerable to the lures of crime. The challenge is enormous, but the opportunity to consolidate a more just and sovereign Mexico is even greater. This is not about giving in, but about demonstrating the nation's strength and capacity to overcome its own crises.

The way the United States is building evidence to pursue justice based on accusations and testimonies is similar to the progressive phenomena that are affecting the structure of kyriarchy in Mexico.

After the cartels themselves declared they were corrupting the political power structure in Mexico, there isn't much left to say. The enormous task is to rebuild the country and public administration. The idea of ​​a narco-state requires a rethinking of

government reengineering. Reforms are meaningless; an institutional breakdown is essential to achieve the desired transformation.

Counterculture in Mexican Regional Music

Counterculture in Mexican Regional Music

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

The debate surrounding the control of popular music in Mexico sometimes seems to misunderstand the country's situation. The US military intervention is presented right under the eyes of the republic as representing, for them, a narco-society, and on the nationalist side, the proliferation of musical messages is hailed as freedom of expression. The world is upside down.

It is strange that government intervention is rejected in areas that are necessary for social well-being. Beyond demanding that President Claudia Sheinbaum respect the symbolic devices of drug trafficking, one might wonder if these cultural controversies would convince Donald Trump to withdraw his battleships, destroyers, and aircraft carriers from the country's maritime borders.

If the Radio and Television Law in Mexico were enforced, like the rule of law, for example, the country's configuration would surely be different; However, the problem is institutional weakness, the government's limited capacity to enforce the law. It is unfair to compare cultural freedom in the Western world with what is happening in Mexico. Certainly, in the United States, unlimited freedom exists, but it is also true that state surveillance of the counterculture has managed to ward off the negative and terrorist impact that some national and foreign elements seek to generate with certain actions. In the experience of Germany and France, Islamic culture and fascism are regulated by historical memory and the national security circumstances they imply; establishing almost authoritarian but legitimate forms that force democracies to defend themselves and bring debate and knowledge of the issue into the public sphere.

The counterculture can represent the entry of anti-values ​​that disrupt a given social order. The weakness of the Mexican state vis-à-vis the powers that be makes the counterculture discourse the true hegemonic one, and that is how things are going for us. During the war waged by the Mexican state against drug trafficking, the symbolic production of drugs was negatively stigmatized, but this too has served little purpose. What would be the opinion of the searching mothers and victims of the narco-war regarding the unregulated production of the music that accompanies this context?

The legalization of drugs and narco-culture can set the tone for strengthening the state, because they allow for the establishment of a legal framework and even the generation of taxes and revenues; however, state intervention and public debate are important. As long as state weakness persists, the de facto and hegemonic powers will eventually crush us all until a monster like Yankee Imperialism crushes them, including all of Mexican society. Freedom is conditioned by the capacity that the social contract grants to the leader and the social awareness of the importance of public morality. President Claudia Sheinbaum is forced to resume the Calderónist war and rethink the strength of the state to avoid another material and symbolic defeat.

Narco Land

Narco Land

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

A large part of Mexican society seems to disagree with the centrality that emigration and drug trafficking enjoy in the economy and structure of the social order; However, it seems inevitable to begin to recognize this role that they also share with other crimes in the daily environment of our republic.

It is not the first time that the United States intends to expose officials and members of the political class through a drug scandal. The phrase “narco Mexico” is a tautology, and the link between professional politicians or high officials and drug trafficking seems so common that it no longer surprises anyone.

But, if Mexico is a neighbor of the United States, why does the most important democracy - and empire - in the world do little to inhibit the commission of these crimes, specifically drug trafficking? The point is that Mexico and the United States have a complicit and ambiguous relationship regarding both the consumption and transfer of drugs and that long-standing relationship is an open secret. However, by having more resources, the United States has greater responsibility in the task of correcting things. Mexico is not the only supplier of drugs to North America, but it does constitute the main space of territorial approach for different groups, including international ones, dedicated to the transfer of psychotropics, to take on board American consumers. Health, as it applies to addictions, is not important in public policies in the United States; That is to say, although the number of deaths from fentanyl in young North Americans is stated bizarrely, their own country does not have prevention programs, projects or models, drug consumption in North America is increasing disproportionately and only the American government could change it.

Given its military capacity, the United States could take down drug trafficking groups in a jiffy; not only legalize its use so that drug addiction becomes formal and responsible consumption takes place in a controlled and peaceful environment. That is to say, while drugs are legalized in North America, Mexico is experiencing a low-intensity war that every day weakens the formal government and empowers too many cartels and associations. If the White House put the same effort into preventing addictions in American youth, in the same way that it serves the pentagonism; Mexico and North America could reach an optimum on this issue.

Maintaining the route that has been followed until now implies that soon the scenario set by George Friedman for 2080 will be brought forward. In the perspective of this geopolitician, the south of the United States becomes a settlement of criminal groups who, later, will carry out a true invasion and destruction of the Yankee empire. Now, to try to avoid this catastrophic prediction, North America is increasingly increasing actions and evidence that fuel a total war against Mexico, while preventing it from maintaining alliances with other countries dangerous to North American hegemony.

Friedman points out that Mexamerica constitutes the most important fracture zone for North America, greater than the importance of the regions of Russia and China. The United States thinks that Eurasia represents the greatest risk to its future; but not. The real risk is

Mexican knot. Affecting Mexico can cause the destruction of the United States in any sense.

The cartels have indeed moved to the southern border of the United States and the White House government knows who they are. Why don't they capture them? What does it mean to make an agreement with them to showcase the Mexican political class? It is increasingly shown that the State in Mexico lacks the resources to confront drug trafficking and impose order in the various regions of the country. Under these conditions, what is the point of making a public complaint and further weakening the government of our country?

Promoting instability in Mexico only leads to the government being increasingly ineffective in the fight against drugs and narcotics consumption increasing in the United States. In a good neighborly relationship, Mexico would expect greater collaboration and responsibility from the North American government in a situation that significantly harms everyone.

The war on drugs in Mexico depends on help from North America. Media exposures do not fix anything and constitute the classic ping pong game to influence public opinion, meanwhile, American and Mexican youth die in their hundreds due to the drug phenomenon.

The fight against trafficking cartels must be more than strategic and must begin from the American south, where the main centers of drug trafficking operations and finances are developed. The invasion of Mexico by the United States continues to be a valid option and, even, quite necessary. But, as George Friedman points out in his analysis: what if the United States loses the war with Mexico?

2024 and Narcopolitics

 2024 and Narcopolitics

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Moises Naim and Carlos Fazio agree that global society is in the middle of a war between factual powers of various kinds. The Cornwall Consensus and the Davos 2030 Agenda constitute timid approaches to restructuring the political sphere in the face of the subjugation of the market that puts the human race on the brink of extinction. Multiple formats of formal and informal economy are dominating all aspects of life; But, nevertheless, the defense of politics and the institutionalization of the State are essential for humanity to survive.

Drug trafficking is one of the main global economic activities. In Mexico it is even considered one of the largest employers, in addition to preventing the marginalization of its members in all aspects. The empowerment of drug trafficking in our country seems to have no limits.

It is undeniable that Mexico is a Narco-Society, but it is at the service of the Narco-Empire called the United States. Mexico has been configured as the Sicily of the United States since World War II because the pentagonist military industrial complex is subsidized by Latin American drug trafficking. The main promoter of the drug economy is the United States.

Ronald Reagan and Oliver North are reproduced in each Mexican six-year term, at each of its levels of government. However, each nation's ability to better address the problem depends on internal strength.

The United States does little, almost nothing, to prevent the transfer of drugs and their consumption in its society. The Yankee empire is capable of bombing a country where some American soldiers were victims of terrorism, but it does nothing against those who poison its youth - by the millions - from within and even from its neighbors.

Mexican drug trafficking cells have migrated to the southern United States and coexist with North American authorities and taxpayers. The White House neither sees them, nor hears them, nor does anything to them; as well as the bizarre ones of Donald Trump, Abbot or Di Santis.

American political processes are marked by drugs more than any other country. What does the United States do when its government agencies handle the movement of drugs in various parts of the world? Nothing, who certifies the United States in its fight against addictions or drug control? Nobody. Thousands of books, reports and scientific reports confirm the evidence of the political links with organized crime of the North American government.

Mexico is experiencing a low-intensity war by the State against the Drug Cartels financed by North America and another one superimposed on the competition for the market by the same protagonists of drug trafficking. How long will the US government and its political class be serious about drugs?

Terrorism and Wild Liberalism

 Terrorism and Wild Liberalism

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Hamas's attack on Israel is deployed from a terrorist strategy that cannot be seen other than as unjust and unworthy. Terrorism uses fundamentalist ideology to appropriate the identity of a people, but its only path is violence and abuse. At the dawn of the 21st century, terrorism was associated with Muslim fundamentalism; Samuel Huntington and John Gray warned that it constituted a unique element of the clash of civilizations and the failure of modernity. As we approach the first quarter of this century, it is bitter that these academics were right, because the crisis of Western values is more serious than previously thought. The problem of assimilation is real, but the greatest threat lies in the impact and justification that modernity has not been able to achieve.

During the last century, the terrible scope of war was related to international law so that radical differences between nations or states did not affect third parties and, mainly, the civilian population was not harmed. The barbarity of the Second World War constitutes the main reference of human evil that must be averted and international organizations sought to affirm the right so that the conflagrations were kept in due proportion. Terrorism nullifies all of this.

Hamas terrorism generated perplexity in most of the world, but also approval by groups that identify with its actions and causes. Among these, those that promote narcoculture in Mexico can be highlighted. Indeed, terrorism and drug trafficking can coincide, narcoterrorism in our country has reached disproportionate levels and the comparison with Arab fundamentalism is not extravagant. Homologation implies an explanation, an assumption of values. Terrorism is abusive, whether committed by Hamas or Mexican drug crime groups.

Actions similar to those carried out by Hamas are common in several spaces where Mexican narcoterrorists operate. The strength of the armed groups, the momentary and insurmountable impunity, the abuse that only represses and attacks, the overwhelming irrational justification. Those who identify Hamas with the Culiacanazo event simply recognize each other.

These types of events are representative of a current of thought that has come to be called “Wild Liberalism.” In Mexico, some groups of anarchist libertarians propose and admire this type of acracy. The closest case may be the Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei and his anarcho-capitalism – with many sympathizers in the right-wing Mexican middle class. A pro-Nazi extreme right feasts on Hamas, but they forget that the philosophy of Ariosophy took the statist perspective to totalitarianism.

The Israeli State has the justified responsibility to protect its population and use the necessary means to achieve this. Despite everything, Israel has been responsible towards the Arab world and no one can say that there has been a lack of will to seek peace. The problem becomes the justification of a senseless freedom, without any responsibility to confront public order, to destroy the lives of ordinary and simple people. The situation in Israel shows the importance and necessity of the construction of political society, of the role of the State, which regulates uncertainty and contributes to the well-being of people. Societies need to structure their States and international relations increasingly imply the need for international organizations and rights that are respected.

These last years have witnessed a series of conflicts against which the immediate action of the State has saved human groups in different countries. The State as guarantor of public order and primary actor in international relations, recovers its role and importance. It is the monster to scare other monsters.

Various anarchist groups and imperialist actors may have influenced, as they did in the past, to generate the conflict between Hamas and Israel within a geographical area that also constitutes the scene of imperialist disputes and civilizational wars. Unlike states held hostage by Muslim terrorism and invisible power, the force of the State of Israel will effectively try to demolish the conspiracy to which it was subjected.

In any case, it is essential to rethink the debates on political liberalism to stop dogmatizing it and using it to justify almost anything or type of action. No form of savage liberalism finds justification, there are terrorists and criminals who put others at risk and the State has to confront them. If the State does not fulfill its functions, or is distracted and the groups of the civil population remain at the disposal of the state of nature, humanity would truly face extinction.

It seems like a trite and anachronistic idea for current times, but how valid it is and how urgent it is to implement it to avert global cataclysm.

Strengthening the State, promoting law, civic and fiscal responsibility do not seem to be characteristics of liberal culture; However, true liberalism begins by focusing on these types of elements to develop a minimal, although sufficient, State.