Crimen organizado, actor principal en el proceso electoral
Meganoticias Mx — Entrevista con Adán Olvera
Crimen organizado, actor principal en el proceso electoral
Meganoticias Mx — Entrevista con Adán Olvera (TV / YouTube) April 23, 2021 · Mexico Photo: Cuartoscuro
El Crimen Como Actor Electoral
In the run-up to Mexico’s largest-ever electoral cycle (nearly 20,000 positions on the June 6, 2021 ballot), I sat down with Adán Olvera on Meganoticias to explain how organized crime uses elections to entrench territorial control. My 148-group map shows where criminal actors operate and how that density overlaps with the highest-violence municipalities during campaigns.
The mechanism, in my words: “Lo que hemos visto en México es que desgraciadamente a la hora de las elecciones, varios de los candidatos, que no son cooptados por los grupos criminales, son amedrentados, amenazados de muerte o asesinados.” Coopting a candidate buys parallel access to public resources and territorial governance, backed by the threat facing anyone who refuses.
La Violencia Como Estrategia
By April 2021, private consultancy Etellekt had logged dozens of politicians and candidates attacked or killed during the campaign. I framed my CIDE research as the explanatory layer: my 148-group map shows which territories were most contested, and those are exactly where cooptation and assassination concentrated. Fragmentation doesn’t reduce electoral violence, it increases it, because more groups compete for the same political ground.