“President Calderon rushed to launched this war, without thinking the consequences and having a well trace strategy, he simply was eager to legitimize himself once and for all, after the post electoral crises of 2006”.
By Gabriel Infante Carrillo
Columnist
Thirty-one months have past since the drug war that president Calderon launched few days after his presidential inauguration on December 2006. Violence keeps increasing and many are beginning to question whether this fight has been effective or not; if it has been worth it or not the violence that the country has witness in the past two and half years. The killings related to the drug war is over 13,000 and just in 2009 from January to July 16th the toll is 3,920.
A recent survey done by Gabinete de Comunicación Estratégica, reveled that 51% of Mexicans believes that the organized crime is winning the war against 28% that strongly believes that the government has put in difficulties the drug cartels. Another revealing fact is that 50% of the interviewees against 42% believes that is not worth the violence that we, Mexicans are witnessing.
The government could brag all they want that their war has given results and that the U.S has recognized it in several opportunities, and even the DEA recently called President Calderon a “hero” for “his bravery” to fight the drug traffickers. Yes, I can’t denied that the government has captured many members of the drug cartels, but that doesn’t mean in any way, that the criminal organizations has been dismantle, and as described by Servando Gomez Martinez, an allegedly drug lord of La Familia cartel, who phone on Wednesday to a local TV network in the state of Michoacan, and said the following, addressing to president Felipe Calderon:
“ You will never be able to end this, and the day I die they will put someone else in my place, and that is how it will go on…”
All this flattery of the U.S authorities clearly shows two things, that the perception of this war seen from the other side of the border is completely different from those who daily witness a shootout and see a group of bodies mutilated or heads hanging from a bridge, or simply they are just pure spectators as if they were watching an action movie.
The survey and the past mid-term election of July 5th, where president Calderon party suffered a political setback, from being first political force to second, demonstrate that Mexicans doesn’t buy all this triumphalism discourse. As I have pointed out in many opportunities, President Calderon rushed to launched this war without thinking the consequences and having a well trace strategy, he simply was eager to legitimize himself once and for all after the post electoral crises of 2006. It’s clearly that this war doesn’t have an end.
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Photo: Narco Tijuana
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