Abstract

SANTIAGO, Teresa  and  ILLADES, Carlos. The Irregular War in Guerrero, 2007-2017. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.157, pp.249-275. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v40i157.363.

There is no denying that from the very beginning, discrepancies existed over the legitimacy of using the term “war’ to refer to the combat against organized crime in Mexico launched by Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. Yet the many terrible effects of this campaign make it difficult, indeed, to find a more adequate term than “war’ to characterize it: the fact that the armed forces have been deployed permanently in different regions of the country with no sign of their imminent replacement by adequately-trained policemen; that even the most cursory calculation reveals that the number of deaths caused by clashes between criminal organizations and the forces of public order number in the hundreds of thousands; and that tens of thousands of innocent people have disappeared or been displaced. But no state in the country has been more terribly affected by this war than Guerrero, so this study seeks to understand this facet of the state’s recent history by conceiving the fight against drug-trafficking as an irregular war; that is, a form of internal warfare.

Keywords : irregular war; military operations; victims; securitization.

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