Notes to thought about the violence in Guanajuato, Mexico

Abstract

The objective in this article is to reflect, as a state of the art, on the accelerated growth of generalized violence in Guanajuato, Mexico. It is considered that the increase in intentional homicides and high-impact crimes are the product of different events that intersect and have developed little by little in the state, such as: an accelerated industrialization process, social and economic inequalities, femicide, theft of fuel, the sale, distribution and consumption of synthetic drugs, such as methamphetamine, and a punitive policy of direct combat against organized crime. To understand this process, an analysis of statistical data and field work is used in different areas of the entity. It is concluded that the accelerated development of the region has contributed to the change in the dynamics of small cities, which until a few years ago were considered extremely safe, since they became the center of shootings, massacres, disappearances, femicides, among others. The entity is a great example of the necropolitics deployed by contemporary sovereign states that, by building a common enemy, "organized crime", justify the deployment of the force of the state and parastatal groups to keep the population under control.