The Criminal Industry in Mexico
It was the process of neoliberalization that facilitated the expansion and diversification of these industries’ businesses. Organized crime was globalized as well.
It was the process of neoliberalization that facilitated the expansion and diversification of these industries’ businesses. Organized crime was globalized as well.
By Ángeles Mariscál The booths in the Northern Market opened, children attended school, amarket with typical sweets was installed on the central plaza and dozens ofsoldiers and police maintain searches and patrols. 24 hours after armed men took control of the northern zone of San Cristóbal de Las Casas forseveral hours, the population tries to recuperate its daily life. Señoras María Eugenia and Morelia spent Wednesday morning setting up astall selling typical sweets in the corridor of what used to be the MunicipalPresidency of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, next to the Cathedral of Peace.The Corpus Christi celebrations will begin …
“In Mexican territory, the violence of the State, which includes the presence of organized crime in collusion with governments at different levels, has caused zones of silence where there are no conditions in which to carry out our work. Journalists have been murdered, disappeared, threatened and forced to move out of their entities, said journalists in a protest against aggressions and deaths.”
From the Editor’s Desk Several burned vehicles were left behind following a confrontation between armed groups that sowed terror and panic for at least four hours, as they drove around the public road with their high-powered weapons without the security forces intervening, presumably due to the dispute over the administration of the market in the northern zone of San Cristóbal de la Casas, Chiapas. Police sources said that the hooded subjects, who carried long weapons and some bulletproof vests, according to images transmitted on social networks, blocked the road to Chamula shortly before noon with heavy vehicles and the south …
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The United States will find its exceptionalism when it confronts reality from the perspective of the iconoclasts and rebels who break with the racism and the imperialist strategies promoted by the dominant classes of white, anglo-saxon, protestant (WASP) United States