The optimism of the President of the Republic, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, sponsored and shared by her Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, in relation to a decrease in the number of intentional homicides which, they claim, is around double digits, contrasts greatly with the reality seen in the country, is heard with the sound of bullets and the sepulchral silence of shovels.
On a single day over the weekend, official security figures highlighted, nine people were murdered in Chihuahua, six in Baja California and the same in the State of Mexico. Sinaloa has been managed separately for just over a year since the internal war broke out in the Sinaloa Cartel regarding the surrender of Ismael Zambada García, el Mayo, to United States authorities at the hands of his godson Joaquín Guzmán López. On the same day, Sunday, there were three murders and the discovery of human remains according to the count meticulously kept in the newspaper. The Northwest.
“In Mexico you already scratch and there is a dead person,” he told ZETA the writer Elena Poniatowska Amor, and the left-wing government had not yet entered the country, but by then the normalization of the violence that had been escalating was already noticeable; He was referring of course to the issue of clandestine graves or narcotics graves, then and now on the rise.
But the normalization of violence is now promoted by the Government of the Republic, celebrating a supposed decrease in the murder statistics as if claiming to be bad but not that bad. And yes, the country is bad, the murders continue and are witnessed every day, but the authority counts them differently, it no longer groups them in a single table of intentional homicides, that is, violent crimes, executions, murders, now it classifies them to disseminate the total number: intentional homicides, femicides, manslaughters (they also tend to increase as appropriate), murder of police officers, human remains located, buried bodies.
At the same time, organized crime itself has evolved in the ways of attacking. They kill and bury so that the bodies are not located, which gives a false impression of a decrease in the number of intentional homicides, which can be confirmed with the growing number of missing persons, where civil society organizations made up of relatives of the disappeared keep a more precise count than the official one, and report increases of six percent annually until, in 2024, there will be over 100,000 missing persons in the country.
Many of the remains located by these organizations of mothers, fathers, brothers and entire families of victims of forced disappearance are not added to the statistics of intentional homicides; the prosecutorial or preventive authorities justify that they do not know when these people were murdered, and when remains that do not match vital organs are found, they cannot even consider them as another dead person.
The indolence of the Government of the Republic, and of the governments in the federal entities, is too much to act in such a way, to manipulate the statistics to deceive with a false decrease in violence in the country.
But terror spreads everywhere, when drug trafficking and organized crime act against a society vulnerable to the fallacy of reducing violence and insecurity. How to maintain before the farmers that the numbers decrease when one of their most seasoned activists like Bernardo Bravo is murdered? It is evident that insecurity cannot be covered up with the grouping of homicides into other categories, and with the sustained increase in the number of missing persons in Mexico, but the Government of the Republic insists on the issue in order to position it and thus, further normalize violence in this country.
Hiding or disseminating the statistics of violence and insecurity only leads to more impunity in the changing ways of criminals to commit crimes, just as they kill and bury instead of leaving bodies lying on the ground and asphalt, they no longer kidnap, now they extort, a crime that has been on the rise in almost all the productive sectors of the country, the lemon trees have made it public but it happens with those who harvest other products, or with those who fish or sell products and services. For criminals, it is easier and requires less effort to extort or collect money than to kidnap people. Furthermore, it is a crime rarely reported and often not officially investigated, which allows the criminal to make legal money, earned through the efforts and work of the victims, to continue in his illicit business. And when it seems to get out of their criminal control, then they kill, as they did with Bernardo Bravo, or with other social activists who denounce the insecurity and violence that the cartels exert and the Government tries to minimize, normalize despite the victims, the dead, the missing.
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