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MEXICOS SECURITY FAILURE

Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexicos security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the booksecurity failurebrings these perspectives together on an intermestic level of analysis. It is a view that runs counter to the standard emphasis on the external, transnational nature of criminal threats to a largely inert state.

Mexicos Security Failure is both timely, with Mexico much in the news, but also of lasting value. It explains Mexican insecurity in a full-dimensional manner that hasnt been attempted before. Mexico received much scholarly attention a decade ago with the onset of democratization. Since then, the leading topic has become immigration. However, the security environment compelling many Mexicans to leave has been dramatically understudied. This tightly organized volume begins to correct that gap.

Paul Kenny , former lecturer in humanities, Kings College, London University, and Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM).

Mnica Serrano , Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Professor of International Relations at El Colegio de Mxico, and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University.

Arturo Sotomayor , Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School.

MEXICOS SECURITY FAILURE

Collapse into Criminal Violence

Edited by Paul Kenny and Mnica Serrano With Arturo Sotomayor

First published 2012

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Simultaneously published in the UK

by Routledge

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2012 Taylor & Francis

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ISBN: 978-0-415-89327-5 (hbk)

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Printed and bound in the United States of America on acid-free paper by Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO.

For Mexico

CONTENTS

Paul Kenny and Mnica Serrano

PART I The Background

1

Paul Kenny and Mnica Serrano

2

Paul Kenny and Mnica Serrano

PART II Security Failure at Home

3

Ana Laura Magaloni

4

Ernesto Lpez-Portillo

5

Alejandro Anaya Muoz

PART III and Abroad

6

Jorge Chabat

7

Athanasios Hristoulas

8

Ral Bentez and Arturo Sotomayor

Paul Kenny and Mnica Serrano

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The first thanks go to Cristina Eguizbal who, as program officer at the Ford Foundation office in Mexico City, immediately gave her backing to the idea that lies behind this book. This was to bring together a group from Mexicos dispersed security community, in response to the deterioration of the countrys security. That idea led to a joint institutional collaboration between El Colegio de Mxico and the Centro de Investigacin y Docencia Economicas (CIDE). After the initial contribution of Arturo Sotomayor, the CIDE side of the project was fortunate to find itself in the hands of Jorge Chabat. Meanwhile Kimberly Krasevac-Szekely had come on board at the Ford Foundation, and generously saw the project through to its next stage.

Throughout, Silvia Lpez Hernndez, Jasmn Flores and Mara de Vecchi at El Colegio de Mxico and Valentn Pereda at CIDE provided much appreciated logistical support. The groups participants were privileged over the course of the years to have a series of off- the record exchanges with leading civilian and military policy makers. It is to be hoped that, in however small a way, their thinking was also influenced by the groups perspectives.

The group also had the invaluable opportunity of holding a colloquium at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Gratitude is due to Laurence Whitehead for making this possible, and to Jane Boulden, Malcolm Deas, Andrew Hurrell, Alan Knight, David Mares, Eduardo Posada-Carb, Philip Robins and Andrs Rozental, among others, for their insights. Jane Boulden also merits recognition for her altruism in securing translations of the chapters by Ana Laura Magaloni, and Ral Bentez Manaut and Arturo Sotomayor.

The final transition into this book owes everything to the wisdom and patience of Michael Kerns at Routledge. He endured far more trouble than any editor ought, giving a lesson in ethical intelligence through the grace with which he did so. The manuscript benefited enormously from the comments and proposals of three anonymous reviewers, each of whom helped the ferrying of the book to its destination.

Paul Kenny

Mnica Serrano

ABBREVIATIONS

AFI	Federal Investigation Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigacin)
CFAF	Corps of Federal Support Forces (Cuerpo de Fuerzas de Apoyo Federal)
CIDAC	Center of Research for Development
CIDE	Centro de Investigacin y Docencia Economicas
CISEN	Center of Investigation and National Security (Centro de Investigacin y Seguridad Nacional)
CNDH	National Commission for Human Rights
DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration
DF	Federal District
DFS	Federal Security Directorate (Direccin Federal de Seguridad)
EPR	Popular Revolutionary Army
FARC	Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
GAFE	Grupo Aeromvil de Fuerzas Especiales
HRC	Human Rights Council
ICESI	Citizens Institute on Insecurity Studies
NAFTA	North American Free Trade Association
PAN	National Action Party (Partido Accin Nacional)
PFP	Federal Preventive Police
PGR	Attorney generals office
PJF	Federal Judicial Police (Polica Judicial Federal)
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