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 — this Meganoticias segment with Adán Olvera examines how organized crime groups use electoral periods to entrench territorial and institutional control. The interview draws on CIDE Drug Policy Program findings: the 148-group map reveals not just where criminal actors operate, but how their geographic density overlaps with the highest-violence municipalities targeted during campaigns.
The mechanism Roa describes is structural: “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.” Groups that successfully coopt a candidate gain parallel access to public resources and territorial governance — not through the ballot box, but through the threat of what happens to those who refuse the arrangement.
La Violencia Como Estrategia
By April 2021, the electoral violence count was already alarming: private consultancy Etellekt had logged dozens of politicians and aspiring candidates attacked or killed during the campaign period. The Meganoticias segment frames the CIDE research as the explanatory layer behind the headlines — the 148-group map shows which territories were most contested, and contested territories are precisely where candidate cooptation and assassination were concentrated. The interview connects the count to the mechanism: fragmentation of criminal actors does not produce less violence during elections; it produces more, because more groups are competing for the same political real estate.
Citation
Olvera, A. (Host). (2021, April 23). Crimen organizado actor principal en proceso electoral — Entrevista a Jorge Roa, CIDE. Meganoticias Mx.