The Best Organised Crime is Our Government

I can't write about Mexico. I've been avoiding to do so. Too many things are happening. It is as if, the 43 students were just a tip of an iceberg and as global warming goes on, gruesome facts keep appearing as stiff carcasses of facts and alliances, are exposed to the public eye.

Once again, the exact same day in the calendar, some burglars broke into my grandmother's house. She turned 95 this month. An independent woman still, lives by herself without any aid. Her confidence is shattered, due to her hearing loss, the burglars came inside her bedroom and looked into her drawers for valuable things, while she was asleep.

Her house is now becoming a little bunker. She refuses to leave her house. I can't say I blame her. But the fact that this magazine has published on their new issue about her quickly becoming dangerous neighbourhood, leaves no doubt of how our country is weakened by the same people that is supposed to be running them.

Dione Anguiano, Iztapalapa governess. Image: Benjamin Flores

It hurts, it's not we are taking care of complex problems as a society nor that the government is trying to. Imagine police forces very day, working against you, blocking legal processes, disappearing those few that speak out, weakening places by allowing corruption to occur. Trucks of shit, opening their doors, suffocating us, layer after layer... 

To some journalists (above) the stench is becoming unbearable: In just one day he reported the Murat properties scandal, the millions of pesos stolen in Guerrero, possible frauds in Jalisco's Congress and the some officers faking a lottery contest and taking away all the money.

Our president? Worried about the 147 deaths, just this January? Our first Lady? Creating a response group for all the mothers of impune disappearances in Veracruz? Our Congress, dedicated to the control of these multiplying multimillionaire houses by government officials?

Peña and the tuna businessman Eduvigildo Carranza Beltrán.
Image: Noroeste

Nope. He's resting, playing golf with his wealthy friends in Mazatlán. First Lady? Working on her tan. I'm quoting Denisse Dresser citing Eduardo Buscaglia, "the most organised crime is really, inside the government".