Narcohistory

How Mexico and the USA jointly created a 'Mexican War Against Drugs'

  • Alma Guillermoprieto, “Fourty-Three Mexican Students went missing. What really happened to them? ,” The New Yorker, 20/03/2024. [Link]

    “One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers´college vanished. Since then, their families have fought for answers”.

  • SEDENA, “Sedena informa sobre hechos en Chiapas,” Official announcement, SEDENA – Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, 02/10/2024. [Link]

    An official public letter by the “Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional” in Mexico informs of violent incident at a highway nearby the Mexican south border, Chiapas, authored by the Mexican Army against a truck that tried to avoid their encounter. The truck was carrying 33 migrants (Egiptian, Nepalese, Cuban, Indian, Pakistani, and Arab), 4 of them resulted death at the spot, 12 injured were taken to a hospital, 2 of which died in a matter of hours.

  • A.P., “Investigadores ganan Nóbel de Economía por trabajo sobre pobreza en México,” Revista Proceso, México, 20/10/2024. [Link]

    “Nóbel de Economía a tres que enfocan el estudio de Nogales: el crimen organizado – la pobreza, del lado de México la mayor riqueza y sostenibilidad del lado del norte…”

    Los tres economistas “han demostrado la importancia de las instituciones sociales para la prosperidad de un país”.

     

     

  • Javier Sicilia, “Los pobres,” Portal Político del Ciudadano, INEP, A.C. & Revista Proceso, 04/10/2024. [Link]

    “México no sólo sigue un país de pobres en el sentido en que López Obrador lo entiende, sino uno cuyos habitantes están indefensos ante la violencia y la impunidad: un país de pobres en el sentido más amplio y pleno de lo que la palabra significa.

    López Obrador lo sabía. Era consciente de que el crimen organizado, una forma extrema del capitalismo, junto con las complicidades del Estado y sus pactos de impunidad, los producía, y que las victimas —esos seres que han sido llevados a la mínima sobrevivencia— eran y siguen siendo, desde la época de Calderón, su presencia más clara.”

     

  • Statista Research Department, “Number of homicides in Mexico from 1990 to 2024, by presidential term,” Statista , 07/08/2024. [Link]

    Statista´s graphic on homicides at Mexico grouped by presidential term, from 1990 to 2024. The data was obtained at the Mexican National System of Public Security. “The number of homicides registered in the term of former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto amounted to 150,451 cases as of 2017, a considerable increase in comparison with Felipe Calderón’s presidential term. At the end of his term, Andrés Manuel López Obrador recorded over 151,000 homicides.”

  • Bibiana Besasso, “El mensaje del operativo enjambre,” Periódico La Razón, México, 25/11/2024. [Link]

    “Operación enjambre… Es la nueva estrategia de la Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. Atrás quedaron los abrazos y no balazos”. Desarticular redes de funcionarios municipales en el Estado de México ligados al crimen organizado.

    Sheinbaum´s new strategy against organized crime: destroy the networks of municipal officials linked to organized crime. Specifically the piece talks about the capture of seven government officials at Estado de México – one commited suicide in front of the persons who arrived to take him prisoner. Six more are on the run.

  • Diana Soto y Óscar Noguera, “Nueva anomalía en el registro de muertes en CDMX: bajan casos “indeterminados”, pero suben fallecimientos accidentales y suicidio,” Animal Político, 15/11/2024. [Link]

    Nueva anomalía en el registro de muertes en CDMX: bajan casos “indeterminados”, pero suben fallecimientos accidentales y suicidio.

    This piece implies the real number of homicides in Mexico has been “makeduped”.

     

  • Wikipedia, “Abrazos, no balazos,” Wikipedia, 18/10/2024. [Link]

    Wikipedia explains the meaning of the phrase used by AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador), President of Mexico from 2018 to September 30, 2024, to define his policy against illegal drugs trade: “Abrazos, no balazos” is a Spanish-language anti-war slogan, commonly translated as “Hugs, not bullets” (though “balazo” is more literally “gunshot”), and often compared to the English “Make love, not war“. The slogan was initially associated with the Chicano counterculture of the 1960s, and figured prominently in the Mexican-American anti-war movement, as a slogan in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.[1][2] 

     

  • Article 19 MX-CA, “México, en posible relación con su labor periodística,” Article 19, 11/12/2024. [Link]

    “De 2000 a la fecha, ARTICLE 19 ha documentado 168 asesinatos de periodistas en México, en posible relación con su labor.”

  • Center for Preventive Action, “Criminal Violence in Mexico,” , 09/10/2024. [Link]

    “Mexico faces a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left over thirty-thousand people dead each year since 2018. Gangs and drug cartels largely perpetrate this violence, but the state has also committed human rights violations in its war against these groups. Civilians bear the most significant impact, which drives migrants to the U.S. border.”