Before shoot him to the governor of Guanajuato, Diego Sinhue Rodríguezhe President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He said he was a “good person.” Known fillers, like when he says “with all due respect,” López Obrador described him as incompetent. “It's like the governor governs, but he doesn't rule, to put it clearly,” said the president, who was speaking in the context of the murder of the candidate of Brunette to the mayor of Celaya, Gisela Gaytanat the first rally of his campaign.
Since 2017 Guanajuato has been involved in a war between two criminal organizations that fight for control of the theft of fuel, which has come to have greater value than cocaine. The main one is the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartelwho was born in Villagrán, a municipality that borders Celaya and Salamanca, where a refinery is located. Pemex, which although it is not the one that produces the most, is the best connected to the industrial areas of the country. His adversary is Jalisco New Generation Cartelwhose war, until 2018, the last year of Enrique Peña Nieto's government, had caused 3,517 intentional homicides.
The arrival of the López Obrador government was full of utopias and lies. The first Secretary of Security, Alfonso Durazo, promised that in the first six months of the new administration, violence would be contained and intentional homicides would decrease. His first challenge, as part of a war against huachicol that the government started in December 2018 to cover up errors in the fuel supply that caused a crisis, was to combat fuel theft in Guanajuato, governed by the PAN. The capture of the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, Durazo had offered, would be the turning point of violence in the state.
It was not so. Federal forces arrested the head of that organization, José Antonio Yépez, El Marro, on August 2, 2020, but fuel theft, which in 2019 had increased the number of intentional homicides by 500 compared to 2018, skyrocketed. five thousand 370, something natural due to the lack of control after the capture while the leadership was reorganized. According to the consulting firm TResearch, intentional homicides rose to 4,333 in 2021 and 4,329 in 2022, but fell last year to 3,132, the lowest figure of Rodríguez's six-year term.
Although in the accumulated six-year period Guanajuato continues to be the entity with the highest number of intentional homicides, TResearch, which publishes its numbers based on information from INEGI and the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, is the fourth entity that has decreased the most that type of crime in 2023 and 2024 (minus 16%), only surpassed by Sonora, Baja California and Aguascalientes.
It is not surprising that the president, despite the indicators, has taken advantage of the murder of the mayoral candidate in Celaya to focus his batteries on the PAN governor and shoot him. It was, as López Obrador complains about others, an act of “politicking” during electoral times.
The president's double standard is impressive. Nine of the 14 entities where intentional homicides have increased in 2023 and so far this year, are governed by Morena: Tabasco, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Guerrero, Mexico City, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Sinaloa and Puebla. Two more, Chiapas and Morelos, are governed by the Green Party and Encuentro Social, which are supporters of Morena, and another, Nuevo León, which is governed by Movimiento Ciudadano, whose leadership is at the service of the National Palace and the Attorney General's Office. the Republic. Of the rest, Chihuahua is governed by the PAN, and Jalisco by the non-government faction of Movimiento Ciudadano,
Guanajuato is far behind them in results against violence, but only its governor has López Obrador referred to as incapable. With the murder of Gaytán, there are two political homicides since last December, the same number registered in Veracruz and the state of Mexico.
Rodríguez does not have the results of Evelyn Salgado, governor of Guerrero, a state that has had four political assassinations in the period, whom López Obrador has defended with all his strength despite the disaster in the state, Rutilio Escandón, the governor of Chiapas, where There have been three homicides of candidates for elected office, or Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, in whose state, Michoacán, three politicians have been killed.
In the states with the highest number of political murders so far, Guerrero, Michoacán and Chiapas, violence and ungovernability prevail and the inability of their rulers stands out. But the three are protected by López Obrador, who considers all Morenistas and satellites to be good governors, who are doing their job well and that the attacks against them occur in the context of the electoral contest.
Certainly, in these political times we live in, this double standard is seasoned with cynicism and indecency.
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