La Tuta's message used the president as a decoy of interlocution, but in reality it was directed to La Familia's social base (to the active members of the criminal mafia and also to the populations that support, protect, and nurture the organization) with the objective of explaining and justifying their violent acts, in the present and those to come.Perhaps the gravest failure committed during this complicated campaign of the Mexican state against organized crime has been the systematic absence of a more sociological and anthropological analysis, geared toward the relationship that mafias maintain with the population from which they come.A much greater focus has been dedicated to the study of the military and police strategy, to the judicial and institutional perspective, to the economic questions, but very little energy has been devoted to the social and psychological dimension of this issue.Why are entire communities complicit in this form of delinquency? Why is that these communities protect the interests, as if they were their own, of the sworn enemies of the state?
Monday, July 20, 2009
Raphael on La Tuta
Ricardo Raphael follows up an interesting hypothesis about the purpose of the interview with the leader of La Familia with a insightful observation:
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I think this is an interesting and possibly accurate analysis.
When I have spoken to friends in Uruapan, what has struck me is how nearly everybody knows someone or has a relative (Mexican extended families are large!) involved with organized crime.
The notion that organized crime, at least in Michoacan, is a group apart from society, and can be tackled and dealt with as such, is so simplistic and very misguided.
Yeah I've heard similar accounts from Michoacán as well as the rural areas in the Golden Triangle. The degrees of separation between regular people and drug lords are very very few, in a lot of cases. I think in some places (like Torreón, for example) the familial aspect of organized crime is a lot less pronounced, which should make it easier to combat. At least in theory, so far no luck here...
I think this anaysis is very geneal because this plobably happen en Michoacan, but not in teh entire country. If you don't know the people from all the country you can not generalize in this way. I know that the government did not have an especific plan and probably they did not conducted a reseach on anthroplogical aspect or socially. But this is a big mistake of the Mexican government. They didnot know how make a plan to at least reduce the violence in Mexico.
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