Breathe
By Stephanie Henaro
Today it is clear that while in the same week in the United States Genaro Garcia is sentenced and El Mayo Zambada is tried, in Mexico the wave of violence gives a bloody welcome to the new president.
So if we start from the point that in Mexico "apparently nothing happens" and in the U.S. "apparently everything" happens, I can't help but wonder if in that logic justice is gringo and violence is Mexican.
Because despite sharing the same problems related to Mexican drug supply and U.S. demand, what the rule of law fixes there, bullets seem to fix here.
If not, someone explain to me why we have had six straight weeks of violence in Sinaloa, while Los Chapitos and Mayitos continue with executions and attacks.
Everything seems to point to the fact that what we are experiencing here is a product of "U.S. justice" and "Mexican injustice. Because since two of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel were arrested or handed over to the authorities of our northern neighbor, the power vacuum has generated a chaos that has the citizens of one of the most beautiful states in the country, scared to death.
So while in the United States citizens are becoming more and more accustomed to justice, here it seems that the only option left not only for those in Sinaloa, but for those in the rest of the country, is to get used to bullets.
Last weekend alone we had 259 murders nationwide, which is added to the 34,000 murders in the 16 days of Sheinbaum's six-year term, 21% more than last October under AMLO.
The command changed, but what did not change was the inertia that is close to turning the country into a mass grave with a national anthem.
Meanwhile, in the United States the traces left by their use can be seen in the fact that in 2023 there were more than 36,000 deaths from psychostimulants, up 2% from the previous year, and also that cocaine deaths increased by 5%, to almost 30,000.
Reflecting in this way that what happens there goes beyond the evil of the Mexican cartels and that it is due to a health problem that perhaps because it is feared to be linked to national identity - in the same way that organized crime groups have been linked to Mexican identity - is not accepted. So, how fair is gringo justice?
Because what is not attacked there, generates violence on the other side of the border, which on its side leaves deaths accompanied by an economic spillover that surely is exploited by "U.S. distributors".
Meanwhile, the man who was in charge of fighting drug cartels under Felipe Calderon is sentenced because he was found guilty of having links to the Sinaloa Cartel. Something we are unlikely to see here, and that leads me again to ask if justice is gringo and violence is Mexican.
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