EZLN Claims Cartels in Chiapas Fighting Over Mayan Train Protection Fees ~ Borderland Beat

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The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has complained that the various drug cartels in dispute over territory in Chiapas are not only fighting to the death for control of drug trafficking routes, but are also doing so for the down payment that will come from the construction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s megaprojects: the Maya Train and the Trans-Isthmus Corridor.

In the context of clashes between different cells of the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, and other well-known local cartels such as El MAÍZ, El Machete and the Chiapas Cartel, a situation that has led to the displacement of hundreds of people to different places, including Guatemala, the EZLN has issued a statement on the issue, stressing that it is not just about drug trafficking.

“The so-called megaprojects do not lead to development. They are only commercial corridors that have been opened so that organized crime can have new markets. The dispute between rival cartels is not only about human and drug trafficking, it is above all the dispute over the monopoly of the protection fee on what is wrongly called the Mayan Train and the Trans-Isthmus corridor,” the EZLN said in its statement entitled “Adagios”, published on the evening of Thursday, August 15.

The text, signed by the captain, one of the nicknames of the rebel Marcos, explains that since “trees and animals cannot be charged,” criminal groups will do so “to the communities and businesses that establish themselves on that other useless border in southeastern Mexico.”

The EZLN warns that with these conflicts over control and the collection of funds by criminal groups, “the growth of wars for territorial control is assured, in which the hologram of the nation-state will be missing.”

The Mexican guerrilla group says organized crime is a consequence of the Mexican state’s inaction. “The goal is agreed: the state wants an open market (‘free’ of intruders – that is, of indigenous peoples), and the others want control of a territory.”

“Those who say that there is an alliance between governments and organized crime are lying, just as there is no alliance between a company and its clients. What there is is a simple – albeit costly – commercial operation: the state offers an absence and the cartel in question “buys” that absence and replaces the state’s presence in a place, region, zone, country,” the EZLN statement said.

“The profit is mutual between seller and buyer, the loss is for those who survive in these places. ‘He who pays or borrows, commands’ is the old aphorism that analysts and ‘social scientists’ forget,” Marcos emphasizes, pointing out that the Mexican state thinks that organized crime is its servant, who “comes and goes as they are told or forced.”

“It is because of this belief that they receive the surprises they suffer,” says the EZLN, posing a question: “Why, in a federal state that has been militarized for 30 years, do cartels and their confrontations now flourish with the approval of the government of those who invaded the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, claiming that they were thus avoiding the ‘balkanization’ of the republic? Yes, it seems that the Mexican territory is more fragmented than ever.”

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