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Fight Over Control of Profits Behind the “Chapo” Guzman Show

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MEXICO—The fight for the control of profits is behind the recapture of “el Chapo” Guzman.
The government has created a reality show around the recapture of J. Guzman Loera, the “most wanted drug trafficker,” who had escaped last July.
On the one hand the US government had declared that it was the DEA who captured him in 2014, not the Mexican government; but that has not been established in the courts (i.e. the government has failed to prove that it was done legally).Now, after an “attempt to capture him “in the “golden triangle” (an area inside the states of Durango and Sinaloa), they have recaptured him.
The investigations of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) have leaked a chat message conversation between the actress and producer Kate Del Castillo and Guzman Loera. Rolling Stone magazine has published an article and video interview by Sean Penn with the Sinaloa kingpin. With all of this they have launched a media and judicial witch-hunt against the actress. They are releasing videos, chats and parts of the case file for the entertainment of Mexican viewers.
Chapo’s detention was necessary —he and his accomplices have done irreparable damage to the working class. Nevertheless, this does not matter to the State, nor is he hero of the movie. Drug trafficking goes along with the wage system, especially now as the super powers get closer to a confrontation. The subjugation of the population achieved by the drug cartels would be slower by legal governments. Thus, the persecution of Kate del Castillo is a smokescreen, so we don’t ask ourselves what’s really behind all of this.
The mobilization of the masses for communism will eliminate this scum from the face of the earth. There will be no individuals becoming billionaires by poisoning the population, nor superstars serving him, nor armed groups giving him neither protection, nor prisons to jail him. No one will be in a position to extract profits of any kind from anyone.
What there will be is collective work in all spheres of human activity. In these collectives the masses will be involved in all levels of planning, production and distribution without any form of money. In this way, everything will be done for the greater good of humanity and not for the benefit of a handful of bosses and their lackeys.
But the Chapo show goes on. On one hand, the US government seems more involved, asking for his extradition. The Mexican government is worried and tries to hide the need that capitalism has for drug trafficking. In particular, the Mexican economy was kept afloat after the 2008 crisis, largely by revenue from such trafficking. It’s not convenient for them to stop it.
On the other hand the Chapo show distracts attention from the falling oil prices (80 % drop in PEMEX revenues according to the government) as well as the devaluation of the peso, which now trades at 18.50 per dollar.
What is in dispute is control of the profits of that business. “El Chapo’s” pride is so great because of the direct connection that he has, not only with the international financial system but also with the capitalist governments of several countries that fund and determine elections. Also because of his firepower; his links with the media, like those with Televisa, about which the journalist Carmen Aristegui has already spoken.
Forbes magazine listed el “Chapo” in its 2012 edition as the 9th richest man in Mexico. To calculate his fortune, we should know where it is invested. Proceso magazine published in mid- 2015 that the “Chapo” cartel was linked with rebel groups in Africa that were financed with drug trafficking. So it made some people who wanted control of us business uncomfortable. We don’t know the details of such disputes. However, we have no sympathy for any capitalist side, nor do we believe in the goodness of their governments. We mobilize the masses for communism and to destroy this capitalist system, Join ICWP

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