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Sunday's parliamentary elections (1) are the largest in Mexican history and also the most violent, with at least 136 politicians murdered since the beginning of the electoral process in September.
An image is engraved forever from the campaign
Fernando Purn, a candidate for the federal MP for the Partido Revolucionrio Institucional (PRI), was murdered when he took a picture with a sympathizer when he left a debate, in which he spoke several times of the fight, he fought Los Zetas, one of the most brutal tanks in Mexico, when he was mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila
Purn only one of the 136 politicians – including 28 pre-candidates and 20 candidates – who have been murdered since the beginning of the electoral process in Mexico in September, according to Etellekt.
A significantly higher number than in 2012, when nine politicians
There is only one sample – according to experts – of the bloody presence of organized crime seeking the loyalty among the authorities to gain territorial dominance and access to public resources.
According to AFP, Luis Carlos Ugalde, consultant and former president of the Mexican Electoral Authority.
"If you think that a politician is not going to negotiate, or give in, kill him," he says.
Violence in Mexico is fast developing. Mutilated, burnt, abandoned bodies on the Roads: Police and Military Ambushes
– "Silver or Lead" –
There is growing evidence that drug and other crime organizations are attempting to participate in the political life, Guillermo Zepeda, researcher at the Colegio de Jalisco
"as the question of money or lead," he warns, especially in the municipal sphere, to influence the election results, promote the people who are close to them and frighten those who oppose it.
The powerful presence of organized crime in states like Guerrero (south) and Michoacn (west), with a greater number of victims and threatened candidates, has penetrated local government structures as well as social life economic and economically dependent communities. their activities are illegal.
Added to this is the establishment of patronage networks that provide benefits to the people, basing their influence.
"We should ask ourselves how many candidates are not murdered simply because they respond to organized crime," Ugalde said.
More than 25,300 violent murders were committed in 2017, the highest figure since the official count of the (Interior) government secretary began in 1997.
These crimes were played by tourist destinations such as Los Cabos, Baja California Sur and the Most Depressed Areas
– "Punitive Strategy" –
Violence erupted when in December 2006 the then President of the Conservative Party Felipe Caldern (19659002) He developed a "punitive strategy, with which he tried to break any type of communication channel, or vncul," said Etellekt's director, Rubn Salazar
At the same time, he sought to "trap" the big drug cartels, but the results were "bankrupt," he continued.
The only thing that managed to "break them." Since then, "a multitude of criminal cells appeared that are my in the face of ever more radical control over territories and roads, "he explained.
For Sergio Aguayo, researcher at Colegio de México
"I do not remember another country in the world where organized crime has gained as much power as in Mexico," added Author of the report "El Yugo Zeta".
For experts, the solution is not only through the use of the outside, but also attention and to the state's permanent in the poorest and most conflict-ridden areas.
"The unique, real and workable solution that the Mexican state mine weakens organized crime," says Ugalde.
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