Because of his clinging to a position that no longer means anything (and probably meant little since he took office), the center of the public discussion about the solution to the crisis in Sinaloa revolves around Governor Rubén Rocha, once a star figure of the Fourth Transformation.
However, the bottom line of what is happening will not be resolved with the necessary departure of one of the most impregnable political creatures born under the convenient shelter of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
What is happening in Sinaloa must be seen in the light of the new era of an arrogant and shameless capitalism, inaugurated with the arrival of Donald Trump and Elon Musk to the presidency of the US, causing a radicalization of the US anti-drug policy, in the Mexican case, always linked to a complex question of national sovereignty.
This makes it more difficult to provide the solutions needed by a power project such as that of the forces gathered around the current government of President Claudia Scheinbaum, in which nationalism is invoked to write the story of a desire for hegemony.
As mentioned in the previous installment of this column (The El Mayo Truce), before being captured and illegally taken to Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Ismael Zambada explored the possibility of participating in the conversation of an agreement to begin a process of reducing violence, and even peace, in Sinaloa and the rest of the country.
Roughly speaking, the idea was to make a series of reforms to implement a transitional justice system that would allow, through judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, to process the serious violations of human rights accumulated in the country so far in the 21st century.
Some of the proposals that El Mayo reviewed were that he and the bosses who accepted this agreement, after accepting their crimes, would give an account of them to prepare a historical file of the events, would pay compensation to the victims and would sign a non-repetition agreement; in exchange, they would receive a sentence of no more than seven years in prison.
For various reasons, this negotiation did not materialize. And when there was a certain possibility that this window could open again, after the last presidential elections, El Mayo became the target of a special US operation that included the collaboration of members of the Guzmán family and led to the bloody situation that Sinaloa is now suffering.
Source: milenio
