A Broken State
Mexico has become a shuddering horror of a country. Where ordinary Mexican citizens cannot really feel safe anywhere, because lethal gang activity threatens the very fabric of life in that country. It is hard to imagine that drug cartels have such a solid foothold that the government has been incapable of responding effectively to turn the situation around.With all the municipal, provincial and federal security forces, including military, that have been dispatched to counter the war against civil life that the drug gangs represent and little discernible success, it is clear that for the time being in any event, life in Mexico represents a ghoulish rendezvous with chance.
People try not to take notice. Newspapers in particular try not to report horrendous murderous slaughter because the gangs don't appreciate being noticed. Local public security agencies have been given the message loud and clear to stand off and away. Police chiefs, mayors, newspaper reporters have all been targeted in the most hellish way as examples to others.
People are abducted, tortured, beheaded, bodies mutilated and left dangling from bridges to ensure that the message is heeded. Do not seek to curtail in any measure the criminal activities of the drug cartels, do not try to avoid personal disaster in due payment of ignoring these notices for they are unavoidable.
No form of torture and mutilation is too gruesome and unspeakably inhuman for the drug gangsters to indulge in. Nothing much holds them back. They are accountable and answerable to no force within society, the public safety and security and justice systems are effectively maimed, broken, sadly irrelevant and unusable.
Where in other countries ordinary people try to use social media like Facebook and Twitter to contact one another and keep in touch and make one another aware to avoid the horror that is ongoing, this annoys the criminals who would prefer to act in an information vacuum. People who take it upon themselves as a public good to post warning of areas to avoid pay with their lives.
Mexico is inexorably turning from a decent, civil society with its people struggling to become upwardly mobile, to a poisoned failure that is resorting to unspeakable barbarity, afflicting Mexicans with a dread virus of unspeakable fear they cannot escape. It is a dilemma that appears to evade solace and solution.
It is a pathogenic disease of human conscience afflicting a society that does not deserve such dread and horror. As though the deadly psychosis of brute psychopathy has metastasized.
Labels: Chaos, Corruption, Crime, Mexico, Societal Failures
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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