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RAMIREZ-SANCHEZ, Rubén Darío. From the Eden to Hell: Insecurity and State Construction in Tabasco. LiminaR [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.2, pp.196-216. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v17i2.690.

This paper discusses, within a framework of transitional frustration, the process of construction that the Mexican state undertakes in the state of Tabasco. We review the challenges faced by the government bureaucracy in addressing the decomposition of the post-oil society, the expansion of anomie due to insecurity, different manifestations of violence by organized crime, and the doors the latter opens for the reproduction of disorganized crime. Thus, the delimitation of the Central-Chontalpa region allows us to comprehend how the conformation of an illegal territory and a diffuse region is supported by an underground economy. In this region the federal state has an ominous presence in the expansion of crime that gives rise to increasing actions by civil society and new forms of organization that emerge in order to face social insecurity.

Palavras-chave : social insecurity; State; organized crime.