The Unsustainability in the marginal areas of Mexico

Community police and self-defense groups

Abstract

The history of Mexico, especially with the imposition of neoliberal policies, has made it clear how the State has allowed the exclusion and abandonment of citizens, especially this rural Mexico. At the same time, in the face of social and economic inequality, it seems that, as a result, there is a serious lack of the state of law. Due with this situation of oblivion, the inhabitants have had to see different forms of organization, for example, in rural and indigenous areas they have decided to arm themselves to protect themselves from the growing common and organized crime.

At least in the region of La Montaña de Guerrero, they already have more than 2 decades that formed their community police; self-defense groups present in 10 more states have been gaining presence almost in parallel with the growing violence related to organized crime. The self-defense groups can be seen as a symptom of tiredness and reflecting the deterioration of sustainability between the government, the state and the citizenry. On the other hand, the community police is a justice system based on its customs and customs, strengthened by the ineptitude and corruption of the authorities, both of which are ways of life that have taken many of the marginal areas.

It is necessary to know and disseminate what these movements mean and what drives them before their existence is criminalized and devirtualized, as happened in Michoacán (Tierra Caliente) where they sought peace and security that they could not have.