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More than 40 students have disappeared in the Mexican Iguala, allegedly murdered with the help of local police. Rarely has a case made ​​so clear how closely cooperate and gangster politics at the local level.

Soon two years Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto is now in office, and in that time it is in the security policy succeeded more than the previous governments in more than ten years. Police and military have nabbed the boss of almost all leading drug cartels. Even the number of fatalities, since government vote and experts agree, has fallen by about a quarter. Almost one would have believed that everything really turns for the better.

But the end of September was all over Mexico launched a brutal way to mind, how present and powerful are the mafias in the country. For the rude awakening is Iguala, a 140,000-inhabitant city, barely 200 kilometers south of the city of Mexico city. There apparently done an incredible crimes: 43 students are missing, presumably they were murdered with the help of local police.

The students were arrested in Iguala and then disappeared (with the case more read here). Apparently, the police handed the young people in the local criminal gang “Guerreros Unidos” (United Warrior). Therefore, the Mexican army and the federal police took control in Iguala and disarmed all local police. On Tuesday 14 other municipal security forces were arrested. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office have confessed to the students transferred to the band – other confessions to the show.

Two suspects led investigators to a hill, at the mass graves with charred bodies were found. DNA tests applied so far but no matches to the missing students. Investigations of other graves and corpses are still pending. Meanwhile, almost 50 suspects in custody, the mayor of the city is submerged. Meanwhile, around 1,200 federal police officers after the disappeared.

Rarely before has a case so clearly brought to light, such as work closely politics and gangsters in some places in Mexico at the local and state level. In Iguala the mayor apparently cooperated with the “Guerreros Unidos”, two of his brother in law were in the pay of the Beltrán Leyva cartel-.

Organized crime in Mexico:Ruled organized crime

The ratios in Iguala are the result of years of development. Especially in rural areas infiltrated organized crime parts of the local or state power apparatus or accepts it fully. Most criminals control the police, the mayor, even governors. Sometimes, however, the civil servants are equal even members of the Mafia. The transitions are fluid. Certain tracts of land have been so completely hijacked by organized crime. In Mexico, has advocated the term “narco-Política” enforced. Narco-politics.

Rafael Benitez, a security expert at the University of UNAM, assumes that about a third of the 31 states are governed in part by organized crime. According to research by Edgardo Buscaglia and his institute “civil action” the cartels in three quarters of all municipalities of Mexico are present – be it with piracy, prostitution or drug trafficking.

The crimes of Iguala show that organized crime is not defeated when the big capos are taken out of circulation. The cartels are a deep-rooted social and economic phenomenon in Mexico, defeating not alone with the use of integrity of the police and military. Under the pressure of persecution, the perpetrator seeking new activities, says the independent security consultant Alejandro Hope.

Organized crime in Mexico:Missing 13,000 Mexicans

Splinter groups such as the “Guerreros Unidos”, formerly worked as an armed arms big cartels. “These regional bands are not able to operate the large international drug smuggling., But they control the local drug trade and pursue other crimes such as extortion, kidnapping and intimidation,” said Hope. “Local people are suffering from this crime structure much more than under the smuggling activities of the United cartels”.
This thesis can also assign numbers: At the height of the drug war in 2011 27.000 people died in the battle of the cartels to routes and areas. This year the number will drop to around 20,000 victims, estimated Hope. However, rising crimes such as kidnapping and extortion dramatically. 13,000 Mexicans are officially listed as missing.

In this challenge, the government had no adequate answer, criticize all experts: “You have to stop and the financial networks of the Mafia destroy the corruption in politics, the judiciary and the police,” says Edgardo Buscaglia. It is essential also to take villas, businesses and lands of Mafiosi to target and prevent money is washed. Also, the implied “pacto de impunidad” conspiracy to impunity between the state and crime must be stopped. If you put only on repression as conflict resolution, stressed Buscaglia, will eventually be occupied by the military throughout Mexico. “Then maybe let murder and abduction, but we still have a narco-state.”

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