The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused some media outlets on Monday of using the violent incidents of last week for a campaign of instability and misgovernment in the country, and accused criminal groups and the "conservative bloc" to make "propaganda" against him.
The Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, defended the government's security strategy and denied that the actions of the last few days could be classified as "terrorist."
Carmen Aristegui discusses it with Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia, professor at Columbia University.
According to Buscaglia, citing peer-reviewed research in which he has participated, “there is total impunity. Forget drug trafficking, cocaine, methamphetamine and opioids;
that's a bit of business.
Today Mexican organized crime, mainly the Sinaloa cartel and increasingly the CJNG have become multinationals of the most serious crimes.
[...] They are criminal groups that are bidding for a bigger and bigger cartel: counterfeit medicines, counterfeit currency, large-scale illegal fishing.”