Nurturing Crime

After reading the article “Crime and No Punishment” by Carlos Puig I couldn’t stop thinking about how Colombia’s security was twenty years ago. Puig speaks about how Mexico is getting more and more dangerous by the second, and specifically narrates the case of “Jan. 30, 2010, in the border city of Ciudad Juárez...A group of about a dozen barged in shooting and ended up killing 15 people and wounding 10 [at a birthday party].” But Puig’s main point isnt to talk about this event, he uses this case to back up his point of view that Mexico isnt doing much to improve the secutriy of Mexico, instead its making it worse. Similar to how our countries situation was in the 1990’s.

Violence is something that horrifies all people, good or bad. It causes fear which is what has allowed violence to obtain its power. Some people say that the braves ones are the ones that strike back, and others say its the opposite, but if you ask me I dont know. Unfortunatelly, Colombia has suffered a Civil War for more than fifty years, and it has all been due to violence. We have been used to see that violence is combated with more violence, and only a few times has it been able to stop by using words instead of guns.

Puig makes it clear that Mexicos government is having a hard time with the violence of the country, especially with “Ciudad Juarez which was the most violent city in the World” in 2010. Now Mexicans do not admire the government and many even hate their president, Felipe Calderon. The governments lack of imporance towards the homicides that are being held in Mexico is whats making this problema bigger each day. For instance, “earlier this month, the interior minister told the Senate that of more than 103,200 drug-related arrests during the Calderon administration, between 2006 and 2012, only 3,000 cases reached sentencing.” This is demonstrating that more than 100,000 cases were not sentenced, and that these people are going around the streets. Seeing these big numbers startle me because one would think that sentecing 3000 drug/murder cases is a big number, but when one compares it to the total amount of cases it blows my mind away.

Hopefully Mexico will find ways to combat these terrible cases without violence, because although I don’t know which is the best way to end violence, I do know that fighting violence with more violence, equals more violence. Mexico must try to fix its parliamentary budget to improve its security or else Mexico will be living the same thing Colombia experienced with Pablo Escobar.