Hence, Mexican organized crime has turned to extorting whoever does well in a given sector or taking over businesses directly – be that logging, mining, agriculture, public transport, or even mom and pop tortilla shops. In a situation where no one is truly in control anymore – neither the state nor a single dominant criminal group - and there is no-one to impose rules, the default means for these groups to sort out their affairs with each other is violence. Today, there are many dozens smaller ones that have proven harder to control and far more aggressive than most of their larger forebears. In late 2006, there were six major criminal organizations in Mexico. Regional governments became more autonomous, opening up new avenues for corruption in the absence of effective oversight.Īnd Calderón's notion that taking out criminal leaders would see their organizations crumble time and again instead led larger cartels to fracture and proliferate. Then came democracy and former president Felipe Calderón's attempts to go after the cartels head-on. That party might have been a synonym for corruption, but it did manage to impose certain rules onto the narcos and keep violence in check. Until the year 2000, Mexico was governed for an uninterrupted 71-year stretch by a single authoritarian party.
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But twenty years ago, something did change.
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