Las Noticias con Javier Alatorre — Entrevista sobre seguridad en México
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Las Noticias con Javier Alatorre
El Heraldo de México — Radio (News Interview) 2022 · Mexico Photo: source pending
Grupos en las Sombras
The January 2022 interview on Las Noticias con Javier Alatorre — El Heraldo de México’s flagship news program — follows days after the emeequis investigation citing Roa’s CIDE research: a database revealing the names and operational profiles of criminal organizations the Fiscalía General de la República had never publicly acknowledged. The segment picks up that thread, situating the groups-in-the-shadows finding within the broader policy debate about how the Mexican state defines, counts, and confronts its criminal adversaries.
The core tension Roa brings to the interview: when the official prosecutorial apparatus does not name an organization, it cannot coordinate a response against it. The 148-group map was built precisely to fill that gap — triangulating communiqués, banners, and press sourcing to produce a structured count that the government itself had not assembled. By 2022 that count had grown, and groups the FGR was still not naming were the ones expanding fastest in contested territories.
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Lo que la Fiscalía no Dice
Alatorre’s flagship slot gives the research a primetime audience at a moment when the political pressure to minimize the cartel count was high. The interview frames the CIDE dataset not as an academic exercise but as an accountability tool: if the FGR’s public posture acknowledges three organizations and the data shows over a hundred, the gap is not a measurement disagreement — it is a policy choice with direct consequences for where resources, investigations, and prosecutions go. The Heraldo segment is one of the clearest instances in the citation record where the research is positioned explicitly as a counter-narrative to official silence.
Citation
Alatorre, J. (Host). (2022, January 27). Entrevista a Jorge Roa — Análisis sobre seguridad y crimen organizado en México. Las Noticias con Javier Alatorre, El Heraldo de México.