Low intensity Conflict in Mexico: the role of Lawfare, and the Mexican´s National Guard and drug trafficking

Abstract

This essay offers a brief historical overview of the issue of bipolarism, the ideological division between left and right, and problems such as the Cold War, the Mexican Dirty War or the repression against left-wing groups. We analyze, in what interests us, the Joint Low-Intensity Conflict Project Final Report, and show the national security doctrine, its mechanisms and applications to repress political adversaries. We characterize lawfare, and, with various examples, highlight how the current government of the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional—supposedly left-wing— also resorts to measures from the national security doctrine, which it shows were used against it —Dirty War— to confront its adversaries, as well as lawfare measures, supplemented with mechanisms such as the Mexican´s National Guard and drug trafficking to retain political power.