With the power of community, Concordia, para todosrather than an inspirational slogan that feels more like bitter irony from the broad shadow of institutional leaders.
On the digital platform of this Alcaldía managed by Morena from 2021, when this week, moats with a still undetermined number of numbers were discovered, but observers reckon that it could be the Sinalón version of the Izaguirre ranch, which reached the country by 2025.
For people who live in Mazatlán, Concordia is the municipality that we usually visit and seek refuge from the loss in the ranches and streets of this small town on the edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental, which has a history of thugs and filibusters that goes back centuries and whose activities have been the main economic support of the region.
By now the visits must have ended and I had disappeared from the paths of the crossroads tourists who arrive at the port every week seeking a rural experience in these towns that look back on ancient history and which the tour guides recreate between the picturesque and the mythic.
Since the embargo, the situation has changed for some time, and the otherwise peaceful region of Sinaloa has turned into a scenario of intra-cartel war for absolute control of the region, including political spaces.
For example, in the concurrent elections of 2021, it was well known that the drug not only demanded freedom to manufacture and dispose of its drugs, but was interested in maintaining control over the climate and ended up imposing its will in the following three years, as it happened in practically all states and municipalities of the Pacific coast, where, except for Jalisco, Morena candidates and their nicknames were overwhelmingly popular in my book: Sinaloan elections in 2021, EdiUAS).
And what seemed to be the larger story of the crisis of security and democratic institutions is again a theme that the book revealed: No coming, no forgivenessJulio Scherera, when he mentions, Jesús Ramírez, another voice and communication coordinator of the Presidency of the Republic and now coordinator of advisers to President Sheinbaum and his alleged relationship with Sergio Carmona, who was considered the “King of Huachicol”.
And this person was murdered in a regional barber shop after the simultaneous elections where he allegedly financed Morena’s campaigns in different states, in the Sinaloa region, where this party was created in a coordinated operation that neutralized the opposition that was seized and amorizada.
And now there is national and international news where a group of engineers and geologists were captured at the La Clementina mining camp on June 23rd and taken to an unknown fate. This week – quiz, international presence – an extraordinary operation was carried out, which ended with the location of an undetermined number of people, five of whom were identified.
Concordia has been a scenario for the movement of different corporations of the national security system, thus reinforcing the feeling of insecurity among the townspeople and ranchers, which in recent years has caused forced displacement, which has meant many families of Concordia hayan leaving their communities to seek refuge in less insecure places.
Furthermore, under these unfavorable circumstances, the mining company Vizsla Silver continued its explorations with the help of a criminal group, who were likely to receive a monthly payment while maintaining control. But something similar happened that what was a security measure ended or coincided with the arrival of a new criminal group or led to a change of command in the same group that increased its economic demands. No, that’s clear.
Omar García Harfuch rose to the occasion with conjecture, saying that the death of my staff was caused by “confusion” within the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel, which many immediately saw as a basic response to damage control. But Nadie believes it, moreover, she especially bothers families with missing people who have hermeticism in fish.
They said that the mix-up was impossible because the camp was perfectly identified, as were the clothes that were used by the current faulty and missing, as well as the identification that each of them was wearing. It proved unlikely that there would even be confusion after these workers had spent months living in this community.
Something that was not heard, let’s ask why it is better to say it as a rumor, that there is a dominant group in the region many years ago and it is an area of dispute between the individual cartels – but not only the Sinalos ones, otherwise, which had the face of Chapitos with the CJNG.
This version is commented by old-timers and journalists from the important municipalities of southern Sinaloa – Escuinapa, Rosario and Concordia – who in the last year and in the past have witnessed live the terror of the arrests that have taken place in the Serrana area and on some occasions in urban centers.
Oh well, not only are the arrests in the faces of the Sinaloa Cartel, it seems that there is more going on. To paraphrase the principle that there are no vacancies in politics, the same has not happened in organized crime.
Ultimately, the Concordia case and the lobbying of secret groups cannot be seen as an isolated event, but as constants and expressions of a structural security crisis that extends over vast areas of Mexico and the government insists on engaging in statist juggling, as President Sheinbaum did this week.
Strategies focused on manipulation, operations, and containment have shown considerable limitations in the face of the complexity of phenomena such as criminal territorial control.
The narrative of narcoterrorism in the United States also imposes an additional ceiling on diplomatic and legal coercion that, while useful, in some ways cannot replace a deep policy of prevention, desarrollo, and institutional fortification, so it is a more integral statement that balances a political vision with social strategies of transitional justice, respecting oppression, and human rights.
And this is even more true where the governments, by secret agreement or mine, have allowed the conquest of their territories, which prevents, as the slogan says, “Concordia para todos”.
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