Activist and member of the LeBarón family, Julián LeBarón, asserted that Mexico is experiencing a profound crisis of justice and security stemming from the concentration of power, impunity, and a lack of citizen participation. He called for building a “great social resistance” to curb the violence and demand respect for life and liberty.
During a discussion, LeBarón maintained that the country faces institutional decay that has allowed criminals and authorities to act with impunity, while society remains paralyzed by fear.
“How can we allow certain individuals to have a monopoly on security and justice and then tell us that we live with almost 100 percent impunity?” he asked.
Throughout his speech, marked by references to the violence his family suffered after the 2019 massacre on the border of Sonora and Chihuahua, LeBarón asserted that in Mexico there is a tendency to blame the victims of violence, while authorities seek to justify the events to evade responsibility.
“I have traveled throughout the country, I have seen thousands of victims. In countless cases, the moment something happens to someone, the authorities and the rest of society look for ways to justify what happens to the victims,” he stated.
The activist argued that citizens also share responsibility for the current situation by allowing power to be concentrated in the hands of a few. “We are 140 million Mexicans, and we want to impose on a few all the responsibility that we all have,” he said.
LeBarón affirmed that the loss of freedoms begins when societies relinquish the capacity to question and denounce abuses. “Any society that allows its voice to be taken away, its right to express itself and to denounce those who do wrong, ends up surrendering to having everything taken from it, even its life,” he stated.
In that context, he warned that Mexico risks normalizing violence and corruption, recalling historical examples of societies that allowed the advance of authoritarianism and dehumanization.
“I don’t want history to remember us as a nation of cowards, drug traffickers, and murderers,” he affirmed.
During the dialogue, LeBarón severely criticized the country’s security and justice institutions, accusing them of having been built on “fraudulent principles” and of operating more as political tools than as mechanisms for citizen protection.
“The path that has led us to this problem will very likely not be the path that gets us out of it,” he maintained.
Source: eleconomista
