Abstract

PEREZ, Isaac Enríquez. Organized Crime and Institutional Fragility as Conditioning Factors for Development: The Mexican State Besieged by Drug Trafficking and its Destructuring Impacts on the Social Fabric. Rev.fac.cienc.econ. [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.1, pp.145-181.  Epub Nov 25, 2020. ISSN 0121-6805.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rfce.3564.

This article intends to explain and interpret the scope and dynamics of organized crime as a phenomenon that tends, by the logic of circular causality, to erode the social fabric and weaken the cohesive function of institutions. These effects deepen the underdevelopment of a country like Mexico because of the state crisis provoked by the emergence of factual powers that control-by force and violence-large territories and dispute the hegemony of the government and its security apparatus. Based on the tracing and systematization of empirical references, a sociohistorical assessment unravels the destructuring logic of criminal activities such as drug trafficking and their impact on the deterioration of the public sector-as a space for the creation and revitalization of citizenship-amidst the intensification of globalization processes, which also condition and undermine the foundations of the nationstate. The relevance of studying a multidimensional phenomenon such as organized crime is essential to understand one of the contemporary edges of the development-underdevelopment dialectic, as well as to explore possible alternatives and strategies of public policy that, regarding the crisis of meaning suffered by Western societies, are useful to (re)build the concept of citizenship, reverse disdain for the law, and claim respect for the public sector.

Keywords : development-underdevelopment dialectic; organized crime; violence; disdain for the public sector; (re)building of citizenship; state crisis; fragility of symbolic-institutional frameworks.

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