Abstract

SCHMIDT, Samuel. Mexico: a supplanted State. Rev. IUS [online]. 2012, vol.6, n.30, pp.67-83. ISSN 1870-2147.

The federal election of 2012 took Mexico under a circumstance that could have not been even more dramatic. The Mexican government has shown not only terrible failures in the performance of its substantive functions (failed state) to provide security to citizens in their property and on their persons, but also many of their daily functions have been replaced by the powers that be, to the extent that the State had to move aside to allow organized crime to operate in its place. This is the reality of a country and a declared war against the drug lords as illusory as well as non-productive.

Keywords : State; sailed State; supplanted State; Mexico; the powers that be; TPTB; organized crime; drug trafficking; elections.

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