Police officers work at a crime scene where gunmen killed at least 13 Mexican police officers in an ambush in Coatepec Harinas. Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters
The Guardian: Violence erupts as Mexico’s deadly gangs aim to cement power in largest ever elections
Clashes have sparked political assassinations and the forced displacement of thousands ahead of crunch 6 June polls
Violent clashes between rival Mexican criminal groups – and their alleged allies in the security forces – are escalating ahead of mid-term elections in June, triggering a string of political assassinations and the forced displacement of thousands.
State and federal security forces have actively colluded with – and even fought alongside – the warring factions, according to local civilians, civil society activists and gunmen from various factions.
But as well as engaging in pitched gun battles, criminal factions are also confronting each other on the electoral field.
“All the [criminal] groups are trying to make gains right now,” said a Michoacán political consultant with first-hand knowledge of how arrangements are brokered between organized crime and political candidates.
With more than 21,000 posts in local, state and national government up for election – including 15 state governorships – the 6 June polls are the largest in Mexico’s history, and criminal groups see the elections as an opportunity to further their interests.
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WNU Editor: It is when I read articles like this one that I wonder if Mexico is a failed state.
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Sempa is a disciple of James Burnham. Looks like we will have a semi-successful Revolution or failed state. By semi-successful I mean that the liberals will achieve a one party state and then over a few years or 3 decades at the most.
Liberals in academia should not be so smug. There is a reason Chinese student started flooding into America. The reason is simple after they had done it, the Socialists/Communists shitheads realized they had destroyed the Chinese educations system. Liberals hare doing a pretty good job of destroying the American educational system.
Move over Mexico, you are going to have company.
Trudeau can be the Mussolini to Obama's Hitler. Everyone has to play a part, no?
It is a huge problem to have a fail state in our border. Immigration from a fail state is just spreading the spirit of it. We are blind not to see this threat.
Jac, I don't think the majority of us are blind to Mexico's criminality and corruption. But with a biden, a pay-lo-see, etc., wielding so much power in America I am not optimistic. And I say I'm not optimistic because of the caliber of too many people in government and the influence and power they have at their lacquered nails.
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Well, you are right.
Mexico has been getting a pass for being nothing more than a criminalist syndicalist state for decades. We turn a blind eye in the US because they are our southern neighbor. But the Islamic state took the playbook from the cartels to our south and look at what that got them. The same needs to happen in Mexico.
It is a failed state.
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