Authorities have confirmed the death of the alleged Templario leader, Nazario Moreno, aka \u201cEl Chayo\u201d, who was killed in a raid. A scandal promptly ensued: his death had already been reported by the past administration in 2010. The body never appeared and the proof of his death was never clear. This eventuality has succeeded in allowing Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s government to label the former party in office, PAN, as an inefficient entity. Nevertheless, it seems that the effect of killing drug lords does not stop either the trafficking or the cash flow. The question now is whether this dramatic impact implemented by the government is enough. The security strategy does not seem effective when decreasing crimes and does not show any real progress. What are its implications?
\nAlthough the aforementioned exhibited that those operations undertaken by the previous administration didn\u2019t use a proper intelligence work \u2013 one just needs to think about the fact that a whole strategy was based in the alleged \u201cfirst death\u201d of \u201cEl Chayo\u201d \u2013 that hardly means that PRI currently has a defined (or new) security strategy. It is equally debatable that, despite the apprehension of one of the most wanted criminals in the country (\u201cChapo\u201d Guzm\u00e1n), organized crime is continuing with its operations, even in politically key areas for the federal government as the State of Mexico, criminal rates are going up.
\nIt seems that the government is trying to enhance what PAN did in such a flawed manner, but this does not represent an achievement. Killing \u201cEl Chayo\u201d or apprehending \u201cEl Chapo\u201d is not the same as dismantling a drug trafficking network. The ideal scenario would have the government implementing a follow the money type of strategy in order to detect how large amounts of money are being laundered, where they come from as well as where and under who does the route end. Although it is evident that the federal government has been able to reach agreements that have resulted in the issuing of structural reforms that were previously blocked, it appears to be that most of this efficiency is media-related. For instance, Michoac\u00e1n, a state where the government thoroughly appointed a special commissioner that would negotiate with vigilante groups. But, will this focused strategy truly end violence? How much is this plan based in questionable agreements?
\nMexico is on the verge of a strategy in which the federal government is using previous administration\u2019s mistakes as a way to gain political control; nevertheless, style and substance for achieving this purpose are quite different from the past. The current government modus operandi is based on the centralization of powers and institutions and the number of opposed stakeholders have gradually faded out. PRI\u2019s new way of operating seems to exhibit and amplify past mistakes \u2013 without fully correcting them \u2013 with the goal of blackmailing its rivals, provide a misleading hail of its current actions based more on smearing PAN\u2019s administrations rather than efficiency, as well as trying to hide the lack of a government program. One should only remember cases such as Oceanograf\u00eda, the company responsible for providing services to PEMEX, and which thrived thanks to multi-million dollar contracts agreed during PAN\u2019s time in office. The latter is a scandal in which members of the aforementioned party and which are akin to former President Calder\u00f3n are involved. The strategy consists of putting a \u201csword of Damocles\u201d over opposition parties, but only after making important progress with the Pact for Mexico. There will certainly be more \u201cdirty laundry\u201d that the government will want to use for its own benefit.<\/p>\n
CIDAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Authorities have confirmed the death of the alleged Templario leader,
\nNazario Moreno, aka \u201cEl Chayo\u201d, who was killed in a raid. A scandal
\npromptly ensued: his death had already been reported by the past
\nadministration in 2010. The body never appeared and the proof of his
\ndeath was never clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-political-analysis","tag-political-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cidacmx.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}