La temprana (y permanente) militarización de la seguridad pública en México: un estudio histórico

Journal article

In bibliography on civic-military relations and security in Mexico there is usually consensus around the idea that in the last twenty years there has been a certain acceleration of militarization of public security in Mexico. Without meditating too much, and presumably inadvertently and accidentally, this bibliographic body has assumed the process of militarization of public security as a genuinely contemporary event. In order to show that the militarization of public security is not an unprecedented phenomenon, this article reviews, from archival documentation and secondary bibliography, the way in which public security was organized in Mexico since the viceregal period to the contemporary. The results of this historical review leave little room for doubt: military logic has historically permeated the way in which security is provided in Mexico. That evidence compels us to ask ourselves about the way in which this historical legacy constrains and limits the possibilities of a security and democracy agenda in contemporary Mexico.

Authors: Perez Ricart, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Universidad de Guadelajara
• Journal: Contextualizaciones Latinoamericanas
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2018
• Pages: 1-16
• Publication date: 2018-12-31
• Acceptance date: 2018-05-01
• ISSN: 2007-2120