War Field
By @DeniseDresserG
The word
"field". Used to describe the extensive grounds outside the cities, the vacant lot, the farmland, the place of the games, and of mourning duels. Used by Sergio González Rodríguez in his book
War-Field to describe the place where we have become. A country like many in the XXI century, where the fight against drug trafficking has become a war aim. As terrorism. As the insurgency. Current and future societies, combining technological and military sedges. Monitored societies, controlled companies.
In Mexico a battlefield beyond national borders, which is deployed to the north and south, as part of the North American Command. Field exception. Postnational porous field lines, where aerial and ground surveillance of U.S. military intersect with convergent tasks of organized crime. Field modified by rough criminal groups whose activities have reconfigured the interior map of the country. Kidnapping, extortion, theft, trafficking in women and children, prostitution, charging for floor right, and for the right to pass. The social dislocation brought about a shifting cartography. Unstable. Volatile.
A state law that simulates the same time building an anti-state (the prefix "an", from the Greek meaning negation or privation of himself). Characterized by the compulsion to issue more and more laws, more and more punishment instead of producing law and fulfill it. Since the constitutional provisions to existing laws and regulations. And so we live in a culture of a-legality. While a strategy against drug trafficking and organized crime unfolds twofold:
1) to continue the commitments of the Mérida Initiative and
2) simulate a change in practices and discourse "pacifist" by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto while assuming the inertia that his predecessor left off.
Five Mexican cities among the most violent in the world: Ciudad Juárez, Acapulco, Torreón, Chihuahua, Durango. In 2010, Nuevo León went from being one of the safest to the most dangerous one of three states in the country. Gangs that mutate in superpandillas with the advantages of Internet, mobile telephony, social networking. A government that imprisons or delete some just to see how helplessly-ones emerge. A war with no end in sight. And on the horizon, the "normalization" of communal violence, strengthening a state that justifies its repressive character, the implementation of a machine of war because we are the backyard of a country-the United States-which is interested in perpetuating.
The Binational Intelligence Bureau in the Federal District officials and agents cohabit Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, and the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury. The Pentagon operates through the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Security Agency. Also the Department of Homeland Security and the Treasury Department has officers of the Bureau of Intelligence on Terrorism and Financial Affairs. A vast bureaucracy that fails to deal with the problem of drug trafficking and violence, because they do not understand its complexity
Because it reduces institutional, political and social to a simple game of cops and robbers challenges. Because war strategy does not address a vicious circle: the drug erodes the rule of law, and this weakness facilitates illicit businesses. Meanwhile, the Mexican government and school leaders refuse to change their mentality. The crisis level to higher levels of violence. The Mexican countryside away from the stars and us, stranded there.
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