Do the great drug lords fight over the Guerrero market?
In Guerrero, it is not seen that way. “The executions are for personal revenge. We’re not talking about organized crime or large mafia groups as exists in other states, but rather peasant farmers who cultivate small quantities of stimulants,” says the Attorney General’s office. Pedro Quiroz agrees. For him, some bandits earn even more through kidnapping or cattle robbery. In any case, he explains, the perception of CRESIG members is that general security in the region has deteriorated. In April of last year, Global Exchange, a human rights-defense organization based in San Francisco, sent a delegation of lawyers (members of the National Lawyers Guild and the Raza Centro Legal) to investigate the murders in Guerrero. Their conclusions, available on the internet, are as convincing as those of the army: the most common pretext for police and military repression in the state is the War on Drugs; furthermore, the current situation in Guerrero is the continuation of a historic tendency that
