México: un Estado suplantado Mexico: a supplanted State

Las elecciones federales de 2012 toman a México en una circunstancia que no podía ser más dramática. El Estado mexicano no sólo ha mostrado fallas terribles en el desempe o de sus funciones sustantivas (Estado fallido), como proveer seguridad a los ciudadanos en sus bienes y personas, sino que también muchas de sus funciones cotidianas han sido suplantadas por los poderes fácticos, al grado de que el Estado ha debido hacerse a un lado para permitir que el crimen organizado opere en su lugar. ésta es la realidad de un país y de una guerra declarada al narco, tan ilusoria como estéril. The federal election of 2012 took Mexico under a circumstance that could have not been even more dramatic. The Mexican government has shown not only terrible failures in the performance of its substantive functions (failed state) to provide security to citizens in their property and on their persons, but also many of their daily functions have been replaced by the powers that be, to the extent that the State had to move aside to allow organized crime to operate in its place. This is the reality of a country and a declared war against the drug lords as illusory as well as non-productive.