Political System in Mexico Has Become a Violent Symbiosis of Organized Crime and Politics Edgardo Buscaglia - Al Jazeera
go to original December 15, 2016

Investigating an apparent culture of impunity that allows some in Mexican law enforcement to detain and kill at will. (Al Jazeera English)

Mexico is a nation with a heritage of cultural wonders and one of the main cradles of modern civilization. Yet, despite its much acclaimed 20th-century social revolution, Mexico never developed socially inclusive checked-and-balanced democratic political institutions subject to even a minimum standard rule of law.

Throughout its tortuous political and social history, the Mexican state was mostly led by presidents and governors promoting the looting of the Mexican people always linked to organized crimes. Today's political leaders are no exception.

The creation of a 'Pax Mafiosa'

For many decades, organized crime in Mexico conducted its dirty business hand-in-hand with the most powerful political elites of an authoritarian one-party state ruled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party - or PRI, by its Spanish acronym, which, by the way, is the same party in power today.

Within this political scenario, the one-party state operationally "managed" different organized crime networks with an iron fist in order to serve the PRI's political machinery and the economic enrichment of its members, all within a "Pax Mafiosa".

In those days of a one-party rule, there was no space for organized crime groups to compete with each other and even less space to challenge an all mighty one-party authoritarian regime.

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