Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa. D. in Political Science and Sociology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico.
In this electoral process, there is a belligerent actor: organized crime, which every day in several states is making its mark with assaults, arson and extortion.
The ministers of the Court rejected, this week, the first part of López Obrador's plan B for electoral reform and have given legal reason to the opposition.
The announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice is a jolt for the Mexican government. However, for the moment, it does not affect the electoral situation.
Organized crime, although not a conventional actor in the electoral struggle, is campaigning as only it knows how, through violence in its various manifestations.