The recent operation involving 16 raids in Subteniente López and the state capital has revealed a terrifying reality: organized crime not only operates in the streets, but also monitors them more efficiently than the government itself. The dismantling of a clandestine monitoring center with 137 cameras installed at strategic points is irrefutable proof that, in Othón P. Blanco, the authorities have been displaced by a criminal intelligence network that operated in plain sight.
The Criminal Panopticon: 137 Cameras That the Authorities “Didn’t See”
It is both implausible and suspicious that a criminal group could install such a large-scale video surveillance network in gyms, restaurants, stores, hotels, warehouses, and private homes without a single municipal or state authority noticing.
Yensunni’s Omission: While Mayor Yensunni Martínez focuses on her career as an influencer and on manipulating “likes” for her personal brand, organized crime set up its own C5 command center right under her nose. How are cameras installed on poles and the facades of established businesses without being detected by municipal inspectors or the police in Manuel Santibañez’s jurisdiction? The answer is simple: either there is willful blindness due to corruption, or the municipality has completely neglected the situation.
Outsmarted: The Technology of Terror
While the government boasts of millions invested in security, the 14 DVRs, modems, wireless routers, and fiber optic network terminals seized in Subteniente López demonstrate that organized crime has a superior technical infrastructure. This monitoring center operated 24/7, allowing criminals to anticipate every police movement.
Criminal surveillance has outpaced the authorities themselves. This is not just a group of street-level drug dealers; it is an organization with engineering capabilities and tactical deployment that has humiliated the Secretariat of Citizen Security. The Script of Impunity: Raciel López’s Speech
Attorney General Raciel López Salazar has once again employed the same media strategy: presenting five detainees (Rudy, Adriel, Fariay, Geovanny, and Raymel) and labeling them as drug dealers. This narrative appears to be the Attorney General’s Office’s “wild card” to avoid delving into the network of complicity that allows hotels and restaurants to serve as espionage bases for drug traffickers.
The Attorney General’s “we have them identified” rhetoric is the same one heard after the executions of Evaristo Gómez and the recent case of Carlos Hernández Gorocica (the cousin of the political clan in power). However, identifying cameras is useless if the true ringleaders who operate the narco-politics in the south are not apprehended.
Chetumal: Capital of Infiltration
The discovery of this monitoring center confirms that corruption is deeply embedded in the social and commercial fabric of the capital. If the businesses operating under municipal licenses are the same ones housing drug cartels’ cameras, the question is unavoidable: Who is protecting whom?
While Mara Lezama continues with her schedule of galas and “prosperity” speeches, and Yensunni Martínez blocks citizens who demand security on social media, organized crime has demonstrated that they are the ones who truly control the panic button in Chetumal.
Source: morocoynoticias
