Dead Man Walking - The Inevitable Fate of Mexico's El Chapo Guzman James A. Baker III - Institute for Public Policy
go to original November 5, 2015

Mexican Federal Attorney General Arely Gomez warned fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman that the infrastructure he uses to operate his Sinaloa cartel would be confiscated. Gomez was referring to tangible assets such as planes, airstrips, homes, weapons, vehicles, and drugs but did mention seizing Guzman's sizeable bank accounts and businesses. (teleSUR English)

The Mexican government appears to have finally generated the political will that it needs to bring the drug trafficking reign of Joaquin Guzman Loera, otherwise known as “El Chapo Guzman,” to an end. However, the effort to re-capture Guzman comes less as a result of a Mexican court order but rather more because of the humiliation and embarrassment the government has suffered before the world court of opinion for helping him escape from federal custody a second time.

Whatever semblance Mexico may have to a society governed by the precepts of rule of law, Chapo Guzman’s escape makes a mockery of the national justice system. The corruption that allowed for Chapo to again walk free is another devastatingly sad example of a public safety system that is controlled by organized crime and that continues to falter and ruin under the Enrique Peña Nieto administration.

...The government has become willfully blind and permissive of criminal activity and in many cases has become a partner to crime itself. This subjugation to criminality, turned partnership, is in effect the institutional acquiescence of a national government that is allowing or permitting nongovernmental criminal entities to rule large segments of territory and to exert illegitimate social control from both a political and public safety standpoint.

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Related: Argentine Security Minister: Fugitive Mexican Drug Boss El Chapo Could be in the Country (NewEurope)

Related: One of Mexico's Most Fearsome Drug Cartels Helped 'El Chapo' Guzmán Escape from Prison - and It May Signal a Deadly Alliance (Business Insider)

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