Emir Olivares Alonso: In Mexico Drug War Cartels Are Beheaded, But Not Dismantled Emir Olivares Alonso - La Jornada
go to original July 14, 2015

Mexico's most dangerous drug cartels (CNN)

The escape of Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán Loera is not only a sign of corruption in the political and prison system of the country, but it also denotes a "serious error" of governance by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto: ignoring the rule that when the president is absent, the Secretary of Government Relations is in charge of national stability, academics emphasized.

Javier Oliva and Pedro Peñaloza, researchers on security issues at the School of Political and Social Sciences and the School of Law, respectively, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), said it was not the first time that Peña Nieto and Miguel Angel Osorio Chong had left together on a trip, but this time, due to the escape of the drug trafficker, the error is momentous.

However, Imer Flores, from the Institute for Legal Research at UNAM, said that the worst thing is not that the officials were out of Mexico, but the corruption in the prison system and that the Altiplano prison is not a maximum security prison.

Also, for Oliva, the escape of [El Chapo] Guzmán is serious evidence of the level of corruption and impunity in Mexico. Regarding the interview Peña Nieto gave to an international television network [Univision] after the capture of El Chapo in February 2014, when he said a new escape would be "unforgivable", the academic declared it is unforgivable, especially because of the national and international repercussions of the escape.

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

Related: The Drug War Had Been Lost and It Is Time to Change Course (Mexico Voices)

Mexico Voices is a blogging endeavor aimed at raising the awareness of U.S. citizens regarding the destructive impact of the U.S. economic policy and the War on Drugs on Mexico — on its people, their economic and physical security and their human rights, on the nation’s dysfunctional justice system, and on the rule of law and Mexico’s fragile democracy. Visit the website at MexicoVoices.blogspot.mx

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!