The activation of Article 34 of the UN Charter places under international scrutiny not only Mexico’s disappearance crisis, but also the state’s inability to respond to the women who carry out the search efforts.
The trip revealed how the new transnational right uses cultural ties with Latin America as a political banner while hardening its discourse against Latin American migrants in Spain.
Although the government boasts a sharp drop in homicides, the rise in disappearances, the expansion of criminal control, and territorial violence paint a far more alarming picture.
The violence that followed the recent events in Jalisco speaks not only of a criminal organization, but of the state's capacity—and its limits—to manage power vacuums.
