Breathe
By Adela Navarro Bello
A few days ago, the Government of the Republic, through the National Public Security System, reported that at the end of the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the number of intentional homicides stood at 196,216, thus concluding the count of executions. These "other data" are false.
The reality is that AMLO's six-year term is, so far, the most violent in Mexico's modern history. According to a count published in ZETA, in five years and nine months of the Tabasco administration, 200,78 thousand 78 executions were officially registered in Mexico.
The figure is obtained from the analysis and accumulation of monthly cases officially provided by institutions such as INEGI and the National Public Security System. On average, every month during López Obrador's administration, more than 2,800 people were murdered in Mexico.
The sum, terrible for the loss of lives in conditions of insecurity and violence, breaks with the myth of the effectiveness of the security strategy "Hugs, not bullets", since by far, the number of people executed in López Obrador's time surpasses those registered in each of the two previous six-year terms, particularly the much criticized in the Morenista era, that of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, a member of the PAN.
Well, in six years of the PRI government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), that is, with a count of two additional months to those served by López Obrador, 158,268 executions were recorded in Mexico, which, compared to more than 200,000 in the last six-year term, means that AMLO surpassed by 20.42 percent the number of intentional deaths with the six-year term immediately prior to his term in office.
And in comparison with the accumulated number of executions in the six-year term of Calderon (2006-2012), Lopez Obrador's favorite villain and the subject of all the misfortunes of the current era in the National Palace, AMLO registered 65.85% more intentional homicides than the PAN candidate. In Calderon's six years, the count stood at 120,635 intentional homicides, compared to 200,078 in the five years and ten months of the Morenista from Tabasco.
Undoubtedly, it can easily be labeled -since these are official figures- that Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the President of the 200,000 executed people.
And it is precisely this number that is the parameter for measuring the rates of insecurity and violence. In this dynamic, Mexican cities such as Tijuana, Baja California or Celaya, Guanajuato appeared in the last six years as the most violent cities in the world, in relation to the number of intentional deaths and inhabitants.
Although the numbers read and sound reprehensible, a nation at peace, without war or civil conflicts or disturbances from the underground, in five years and 10 months has 200,078 people executed; which is explainable from the point of view that there was a failed security strategy, which did not achieve its goal and, on the contrary, exacerbated violence in a climate of impunity for the main triggers of deaths and other crimes: the drug cartels.
In the last administration, that of López Obrador, investigation and intelligence areas were dismantled in the Ministry of Security, the Attorney General's Office was given autonomy and a national corporation was created, not to combat, contain and operate against criminality, but to provide social proximity, as the National Guard.
In this scenario of absence of rule of law, with an Attorney General's Office more occupied with the President's political adversaries, the SSPC focused on being more of a concentrator of numbers and the Armed Forces patrolling the country with the National Guard to deter criminals, the drug cartels registered a significant growth not without wars to take over mountain ranges, coasts, municipalities and states to produce, distribute and transport drugs and illicit substances both within the country and to the United States, primarily.
Of these insane cartel wars, for example, the most notorious and bloody during the last six-year term, between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation, was that hundreds of thousands of people were executed. Today, in the internal war of the Sinaloa Cartel, history repeats itself, although these records will be included in the still incipient six-year term of Claudia Sheinbaum, who, like her predecessor, has said that she will not follow the drug war policy of Calderon, a six-year term that was surpassed by 65.85% in violent deaths, although it does not necessarily mean that the past was better, but that in the following two administrations there was no comprehensive strategy to reduce the number of homicides, but quite the opposite.
The Morenista from Tabasco, who is so eager to go down in history, at least is already in first place in the number of intentional homicides, after concluding with official data that the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the most violent six-year term in the modern history of Mexico.
Now, President Sheinbaum and her Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, have the opportunity to contain this insecurity, reduce homicide rates, pursue organized criminals, dismantle drug cartels and call on the FGR to investigate drug traffickers, criminals, hitmen and criminals who, from the illicit drug business, have bathed the country in blood, which is why AMLO is already the President of the 200,000 executed.
Hopefully the current administration, the first one headed by a woman in this country, wants and can change history and, at last, make Mexico a safe country. She has the benefit of the doubt.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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