The territory on the border between Mexico and Guatemala has been used for decades by groups that traffic illegal merchandise and smuggle people; but the difference with the current situation, he says, is the acts of violence against the population that does not agree (with these activities); the use of arms, the control of roads and means of communication.
So many women murdered. What is going on? Where does this criminal impulse to choose the imminent femicide, whether directed at women by chance or for personal reasons, come from? We can allow ourselves to call the phenomenon an epidemic. Could it be a contagious disease?
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Organized crime groups that traffic drugs from Central America to Mexico and the United States use at least six routes that cross Chiapas by sea and land, indicate documents of the Secretary of National Defense [Sedena] that were consulted by El Sol de México after the Guacamaya leak. Regardless of the fact that three Military Zones operate in the state, drug traffickers have made their way through the state mainly by sea and land, since according to the document reviewed by this newspaper the security body has not identified air routes in Mexico.
“At a glance, the 4T looks more and more like a regime not of transformation, but of continuity with respect to the previous ones. It is not enough to repeat the refrain that “we are not the same” to hide a reality in which what stands out is a dynamic of militarization, concentration of power, attack on autonomous bodies, the press and rights defenders; the persistence of violence, the continuity of espionage and, as we have recently seen, the recurrence of practices of co-optation of the partisan opposition in the Congress.”
