Mexico fears use of National Guard against immigrants will create an attractive market for drug cartels
Risk analyses reached the point where the Mexican Secretariat of Security informed the Foreign Office about the problems of violence generated by the increase in the illegal transit of people (and even human trafficking) along the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Particularly the increasing presence of drug cartels that have used this point of entry into our country for decades.
The information has leaked to the Senate, where the senators from Chiapas, Manuel Velasco and Eduardo Ramírez, have already approached the government and human rights commissions to prepare a list of possible actions to be taken and coordinated by the National Guard. The controversial handling of the last caravan from Honduras still keeps General Luis Rodríguez Bucio in a state of tension.
Despite the fact that Chiapas is shielded in security matters, since the 1990s it has been mapped and militarized against guerrilla groups, and because it never figured as an interest of the drug cartels. Except as a transit point for the organizations that transport product by land from Central America, the situation in the southeastern Mexican state did not reach the national press.
But in the conflict of recent years, no state has been spared from killings, disappearances and acts of violence. The initial report of the National Guard documented this with the help of the Secretary of Security. Details of this report, which was prepared last week to stop the migrant caravan, were made available to LPO.
At the Foreign Relations Secretariat, a fear ran through the offices of the advisers as the different media, diplomatic and security scenarios were being shaped: the solution they offered the White House - to contain illegal immigration at this point - could generate an attractive market for drug trafficking, which has existed for decades but the demand has increased in recent years.
The profits that are being generated by smugglers for crossing people into Mexico is a growing market that both Security Secretary Alfonnso Durazo and Marcelo Ebrard cannot ignore. On the horizon for both secretaries is a warning from the DEA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to declare the drug cartels as "terrorists organizations" and allow U.S. intervention to " terminate the security threat".