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How safe can a country be?
You might not believe that a mayor who had just been in office for six days was killed by the reactionaries!Not only that, just days before his assassination, the city’s special forces commander and mayor’s secretary were both assassinated!
Somebody will say that’s too exaggerated, that’s not over yet!
The second mayor, only an hour after taking office, was shot dead immediately.
According to statistics, more than 1,000 major municipal government officials have been killed in the country since September 2020!
Uncontrolled violence
Early in the morning of May 20, 2025, the silence of Tralpan Avenue in Mexico City was torn apart by gunfire. The mayor’s executive team in Bruges was attacked by armed men riding a motorcycle, and a private secretary and a consultant were killed on the spot.
The attack, which took place on the main street of the city, was not an isolated case, and only a month later, on June 15, the mayor of St. Mathiopias, Vaqqaca, Lilia Hma Garcia Soto, was shot in an office by armed men, and another staff member was killed.
The claws of violence have long reached the core of the state apparatus. Acapulco, a southern coastal city, a resort that once attracted Hollywood stars, has now become "the worst city in public security" due to the territory competition of drug cartels.
On May 25, 2025, the Mexican military was forced to mobilize the Naval Corps and the United States and the Federal Police took over the local police headquarters because the police were deeply infiltrated by the drug trafficking group and ignored from criminal activity.
A more intense conflict took place in Culiacan in January 2023, when military police arrested Sinaloa drug trafficking group leader Ovidio Guzman and encountered a crazy counterattack by the militants: two airports were hit, the hydraulic system of the civil aircraft was damaged, and passengers lay in the cockpit passage to escape bullets.
In the city, 250 cars were burned and blocked roads, 12 direct fires killed 10 soldiers, 35 wounded, and 19 drug dealers were killed.
On June 24, 2025, during a religious celebration in the central city of Irapuato, a house was suddenly shot, killing at least 10 people, including children. Witnesses said that the joyful celebration instantly turned into a purgatory of fear, and the home that should have been a safe haven became a target at gunpoint.
In cyberspace, live clips of unknown people being killed are circulated from time to time, and like officials beheaded on the streets, they become part of violent performances.
Disintegrated governance system
Culiacan's arrest exposed the deep lesions of Mexico's power structure. As a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug trafficking ring, the city has been described by the outside world as "ruled by drug dealers."
The Ovidio Guzman family has built up a vast network of corruption through drug profits, including top officials and law enforcement officials.When he was first arrested in 2019, he kidnapped 35 family members of the police through the “inside line”, threatening to create a “human purification” and eventually forcing the judge to release him.
This penetration resulted in a systemic failure. The takeover of the Acapulco Police Station was not an isolated incident. The Guerrero State Department of Public Security admitted that the local police had lost basic law enforcement capabilities and became a "conspiracy" of criminal groups.
Officials became direct targets: Two police officers were killed after the attack on the mayor of Santiago-Amortepeque, Vaquita, in May 1925; members of the Mayor’s team were killed in the main direction, showing violence has spread to the heart of the capital.
According to statistics, since September 2020, more than 1,000 key municipal government officials have been killed, and it is not uncommon to be assassinated within hours or days of taking office.
The fragility of the judicial and law enforcement system has exacerbated the confusion. After the shooting in Irapuato, President Simbaum expressed "shock" and ordered an investigation, but people have long been accustomed to this "post-event response".
Over the years, most investigations by the Mexican police have gone unnoticed, prevention mechanisms have been virtual, and security policies have remained superficial and have been unable to form long-term governance. A former official of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration revealed that the Mexican government often arrests drug lords before the summit. The seemingly tough anti-drug operations are more like a show in response to U.S. pressure.
The deep roots.
The survival of the Sinaloa drug trafficking group is inseparable from the huge U.S. drug consumer market.A Mexican media source said: “Without so many American addicts, Mexico would not become a drug trafficking center.”
This drug industry, spawned by external demand, generates huge profits every year, enough to arm a stronger force than the local military police. In the Culiacan conflict in 2023, drug traffickers had firepower to directly confront the military, confirming their armed strength.
Domestic economic and social imbalances provide ground for violence.Mexico has serious poverty and poverty differentiation problems, low-level groups lack upstream channels, and many young people join criminal gangs because of family trouble.
Gao Bo, a Latin American scholar, pointed out that poverty and inequality undermine the checks and balances mechanism of *, and the bottom level cannot supervise the government, resulting in the spread of systematic corruption.
The protests that broke out in Mexico City in 2025 more vividly demonstrated this rift: the high-end globalization brought about pushing up housing prices, indigenous people were forced to move out of traditional communities, and government housing policies were tilted towards capital, triggering strong public dissatisfaction with social injustice., peaceful demonstrations eventually turned into violent conflicts.
The tearing of social structure further amplifies the impact of violence. President Schenbaum blamed the protests on "xenophobia", but avoided core issues such as housing shortages and insufficient welfare.
This neglect of structural contradictions has continuously weakened people's trust in the government. When legal channels can't solve their demands, some groups turn to violence or attach to criminal groups, forming a vicious circle of "poverty-crime-poverty".
Even if heads like Ovidio fall off the net, the drug trafficking group will soon choose a new heir, and the violent network is not really broken down.