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Although official rhetoric of President Calderon now renaming their "strategy", it is clear that in the few days ago called "war" against drug trafficking has not worked: the drug continues to flow, no no withdrawal from organized groups, however, and, increasingly accumulating data indicate that among the many side effects of narco empowerment, highlights the increasingly clear participation and involvement of young people either as victims or victimizers. According to the journalist Daniela Rea Reforma , who agreed to by Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Information, I checked carefully for an interview I did, "participation" real or manufactured minors in the criminal chain has been linked to drug trafficking increasing since 2006. The report
SEDENA delivery is clearly seen that the 5 main reasons leading to the arrest of juveniles are drug crimes, organized crime, robbery, kidnapping and violation of federal law of firearms and explosives . Ranging in age ranging from 13 to 17 years, the states with a larger number of juveniles detained by the army, according to its own report are Guerrero, Veracruz and Baja California, three states where operations against drug trafficking are emblematic of the "strategy" Calderon. The drug not only reach young people, but takes them in a difficult return journey. Something is wrong with the calculations, something is not functioning in everyday actions, something that does not meet or rhetoric, and pricked the faces of those responsible for national security.
On the other hand, the PGR data, noted for example that in 2009, the main reasons for the detention of juveniles involved in drug trafficking, are trade (61 cases) and possession (582). Undoubtedly have to see how many of these cases have been tested and many have been making fast track of responsibilities, would lack clear information on what is considered possession. But beyond the critical distance to these legal criteria, the data is that the drug reached, the drug is there. Then one of the pillars that support the war, now fight for security, "that the drug does not reach your children" collapses before the evidence of official numbers themselves, who can not convince me, because my young child count that are involved in drug issues are more (no data on Chihuahua, where the so-called gang raids, are our daily bread.)
Another phenomenon that has caught my attention is the creation of intergenerational criminal cells, for example in a cell of 7 or 8 individuals captured, the age composition is more or less like this: three subjects over 35 years, a greater than 45 and rest under 23, with members who do not reach 18. This is a very important figure, as it is showing that the relationship with these worlds paralegals (paralegals call the social, economic, political and cultural set up by the drug trade, governed by its own norms and values) can not be understood from a single logic, much less serve to make young people a reason for criminalization, scapegoats for the failure of this war-fighting that is blind to the economic / cultural make up these parallel worlds.
The drug came to stay as currency and survival for many sectors of the population, because for example, criminal groups (especially the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa), changed the system of payments for protection, rather to pay bills, paid with merchandise. This is a phenomenon studied in the mid-nineties in the neighborhoods of Guadalajara (not something new, as you think or make you believe President Calderon), community policing is full of merchandise and had to give out, what better strategy to recruit to the youth of the bands to use as small distributors. In the hot summer of 1993, entire neighborhoods were covered with white snow. The spiral continued and organized groups were able to see in those small local markets (consolidated and stable) an interesting and attractive fringe, are now trying to take control of these small territories with fire and sword, at the point of decapitation and exemplary punishments for narcomenudistas.
The issue is complex, dynamic with many actors. A frontal attack against professionalized cells (if I may say so) is totally inadequate, if not simultaneously serve the local dynamics of these small markets, characterized by poverty, neglect and lack of state. What has happened in my view, which does not collect statistics is the growth of a brutal neo-liberal logic that sends the youngest in a race for self-subsistence "business", but instead of "little shop and the beetle" as Fox suggested cheerfully, the axes of the micro-enterprises were others.
For every young or less "locked" using the language of the Navy Department, emerge ten, fifteen, twenty, ready to self-procure the necessary safeguards for the day after, though aware of the costs, many young people only can sell in a collapsing economy, in a political system in which everything seems to be worth, is risky, as my good friend José Antonio Pérez Islas. Our young sell risk and no actors willing to pay that "good" at prices that are attractive when the alternative is to live apart from the most basic satisfactions. It is also true and that is worrying that among the three youths arrested in 1600 or "secured" so far of this administration, whose legal processes do not know (live at Mothers, fathers, wives or husbands, brothers , children, the vulnerability to the surface), there may be a number of "crimes Porting face "of police reprisals, the required quota of duty. Young people have been in this country a sector which pass the bills.
I have more questions than answers, but I made sure to build in these years of trying to understand the phenomenon: those who are bearing the brunt of this insane and failed war / struggle are young, they and them, excluded or included unevenly First, the cannon fodder of Tyre and the Trojans, are the great army that not only lost but lost for the purposes of future history.