[size=2" face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana" color="#000000]By Luis Javier Garrido[/size]

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note: The following commentary is from the Mexico City newspaper La Jornada,
a left-leaning daily
that some claim is Mexico's only
independent newspaper. The references to 2012 prefigure next year's
presidential
elections.The
increase in official violence is now feed by
the decision of the PAN [National
Action Party], looking ahead to 2012, to hand over control of Mexico's
coasts to agencies
of the United States.1.
The Calderón government is launching a
new escalation of violence in order
to create better conditions for Washington's continued takeover of
Mexican territory
- this time on the coasts, and to
carry to the extreme a climate of fear in 2012, yet precisely because of
the surrender that
it has been making to the U.S.
government of functions of the Mexican state, and because of its
criminal responsibility in
the mass introduction of weapons
into Mexico, the creation of paramilitary groups and death of thousands
of Mexicans, Felipe
Calderon is operating with a deep
lack of security and nervousness has taken control of his spokespersons.2.
The mass introduction of thousands of U.S. arms for paramilitaries,
criminal groups and
drug traffickers, as a way to carry
violence to the extreme in our country, accelerating social breakdown
and justifying
the meddling of Washington, was
agreed upon in 2006 by Calderon with the Bush administration, with the
hope of keeping this
information in the dark. But when,
by chance, the Fast and Furious operation was discovered in early March
of this
year, and Attorney General Eric
Holder said on the 10th of that month that Calderón knew everything,
both governments
became entangled in a series of
absurd lies with the hope of hiding what they had jointly agreed to do,
which now seems to
be happening again with the public
disclosure, on October 4, that between 2006 and 2007 operation Wide
Receiver, with
similar traits, was carried out.3. The
creation of paramilitary
groups by the Calderón government,
and fear of this reality becoming known, has increased the perplexity of
those who
claim to be governing the
country. The 21st century Mexican paramilitaries, created by the current
authorities, and trained
by the armed forces following the
Colombian model, over the past four years have been a prime element of
the "war against narco" -
which in reality is a dirty
war against Mexico and Mexicans - to eliminate opponents, to terrorize
the public with
daily scenes of horror, to intensify
the irrational violence, and to rearrange drug trafficking in agreement
with the interests
of Washington. Most of
the executions and barbarous acts of these months have been caused by
these groups,
which are part of the state,
although they may be attached to the vague notion of organized crime.
Thus the irritation
of Calderon's spokespersons who say
again and again: there are no paramilitaries.4. Where then are the limits of the State? And those of organized crime? In the PAN model of State and organized
crime, are not they two heads of the same coin?5.
The declarative
mess of the [Secretary of
Government, or Interior], Francisco Blake, and a spokeswoman for Los
Pinos, Alejandra Sota, who
on more than ten occasions have
repeated that paramilitaries do not exist, confirms the PAN confusion
between public
(the State) and private (the
cartels), which to them seems to be the reverse. Since Sota denied their
existence
on September 27, as Blake would do
the next day and she would confirm on the 29th, until the signing of the
pacts in Veracruz
and Guerrero, the press has
documented the existence of these groups, in particular "the
matazetas," who have
assumed the lead role in Veracruz
(and, as if that were not enough, on behalf of the government itself).
[As well, the
matazetas] role was discussed in the
U.S. Congress on September 30, and they appeared on the cover of [the
October 2,
2011 weekly magazine] Proceso.6. The
claim made ​​on
October 1st by Texas Governor Rick
Perry, a Republican presidential candidate hopeful for 2012, in the
sense that to reach
the White House he would send troops
to Mexico, does little more than reflect a growing sentiment in the
U.S. that has been
forged by the anti-national policies
of Calderon. Hence the shameful explanation of Mexican Ambassador
Arturo Sarukhan,
who instead of a big patriotic
repudiation nonsensically limited himself to say that the measure was
not on the table,
that is to say it had not even been
discussed.7. The
Obama administration's
decision to increase its camouflaged
presence in Mexico was however made clear by former drug czar General
Barry McCaffrey,
in an interview with El Universal (October
5), in which he affirmed that ["this war is not over drugs, it is a war
over governance, and who
will govern Mexico: an elective
democratic political system or these terrible, cruel drug trafficking
organizations ... (that)
are the greatest criminal threat to
the United States ... (since) they have become' - El Universal,
ibid.] the
major organized crime entity in more
than 2,080 U.S. cities," where, he added, they are recruiting young
people from
your country, so the problem lies
not only on the northern border but too on the Mexican coasts and the
southern border, compelling
Washington to [give] Mexico more
than US$1.3 billion in the past three years, whereas they are giving
Afghanistan US$10 billion
a month.8. The
new escalation of violence enacted by Washington
began with autumn in Veracruz, based
on the outline of recent years: the paramilitaries increased their
activities, the most
shocking having been the dumping of
35 bodies in Boca del Rio on September 20, and within a few days a
climate of unusual
violence was established. In the
midst of growing dismay, the Calderon authorities indirectly blamed the
local government's
ineptitude in order to keep it from
signing an unusual solemn act on October 4, where the secretaries of
Government/Interior,
Defense, Navy, and National Security
[signed] an agreement framed in the operation Safe Veracruz - that is
in violation
of state and municipal autonomy,
subordinating municipal and state police to the federal agencies (in
turn subordinated to
U.S. agencies), which was not very
difficult to reach with the [state] government of PRI Governor Javier
Duarte, an admirer
like Calderon of Spanish Francoism,
and that as expected has given control of the operations to the Mexican
Navy (Milenio
Diario, October 5), the force that is most subservient to U.S. agencies.9. The

troops of Winfield Scott landed in
Veracruz in 1847 in order to march on the capital, in 1914 another
landing of Marines at
the port sought to slowdown the
revolutionary changes, and now the means for Washington to control the
Mexican coasts are
being opened there. The selection of
Veracruz is not therefore by chance, since it responds to the implicit
scheme in
the Merida Initiative, which General
McCaffrey mentioned. The U.S. wants full control of the Mexican coasts,
and so there
are no doubts on Thursday, October
6, a similar operation was announced in Guerrero [on the Pacific coast].10. The
assault of the ultra-right PAN on power in Mexico has meant a bloodbath
for
Mexico and the surrender of the
country to the United States, all in the name of unjust neoliberal
capitalism, which is why
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"El Asalto," by
Luis Javier Garrido, La Jornada, Oct. 7, 2011; edited translation by MexiData.info