Who is pulling the trigger?

A few columns ago, I shared with you the theory of Ciudad Juarez-based journalist Oswaldo Zavala, author of Cartels Don’t Exist and War of Words: An Intellectual History of Narcos in Mexico (1975-1975). 2020)”. His approach is brilliant. I ask you to keep an open mind as I will try to summarize the ideas and events that led Master Zavalu to delve into the semiotics of the drug war. Mountain. Zavala argues that “politicians are not used by cartels, but quite the contrary.” Even the defense of Chapo Guzmán portrayed him as a mere puppet of an entire system that used him for their own purposes. It doesn’t matter that they blocked Manhattan’s most important avenue in order to bring Chapo to justice, because, as Zavala says: “… in court, the trafficker was presented by his defense team not as a ringleader, but as another subordinate of the” Drug Cartel. Sinaloa” and as a victim of official power in Mexico, which was extorted even by Presidents Calderon and Peña Nieto, whom he would pay millions of dollars to avoid being detained by the authorities.” So who quasi-sacralized him? He comments on Constanze Lambertucci: “The smuggling and treason that opens in 1972 are very revealing. This narrative is consistent with the decade because the dealer is always a smaller character reduced to his misfortune, often ending in murder or jail. We’re going through the nineties and there’s a twist. The trader moves from this empty zone to empowerment, and that’s when this corridor of leaders appears.” She herself says: “They started talking about the war on drugs when it didn’t exist yet and when, of course, drug traffickers did not expect this violence, we did not even perceive drug trafficking as a security problem. President Salinas was the first to say: “Yes, indeed, drug traffickers pose a threat to national security.” Which never happened under previous presidencies. Miguel de la Madrid was in no way worried about drugs. [porque] They were at the service of the system. The most disturbing thing is when, on January 30, 2019, and at the end of the Chapo trial, my Cotton Head assures that “the war on drug dealers is finally over” and on the same day in the morning the secretary of the Navy announces the existence of “a new huachicol cartel led by Marro “. Finally, is this war over or not? Who needs us to keep talking about it the way they want? Mining companies that use non-violent areas to be able to mine without running into indigenous peoples and environmentalists? Dark characters from past governments who really still enjoy it? Violence is real, what we need to get naked is how we tell it!

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