These and other terms have been used since January 2008, when the deployment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization military units decided to include opium eradication among their priority activities, since the benefits began to be used by the Taliban guerrillas, to finance the acquisition of weapons and supplies to resist the invaders. From then on, the term was applied to various organizations, as in the case of some Fronts of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as well as other irregular armed movements in Central and North Africa.

The decision to convert the opium crops back into money for the resistance was taken in an assembly of mullahs (the closest to our culture would be the priests) to remove the sin classification of the production of derivatives of the said plant . Today, Afghanistan, according to the United Nations, is the main producer and exporter of opium derivatives. It must be considered that in Mexico, at least since the 1930s, the armed forces have been and are engaged in the same task.

Now good. Last week, a federal court in the state of North Dakota, USA, granted Montley Rice’s request that the LeBaron family be compensated in accordance with the criteria of the Victims of Terrorism Benefits Act. international. filed S.1275, and enacted after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The complaint is directed against the criminal organization based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. If this case succeeds, it will involve a substantial change in relations between Mexico and the United States, as well as a long series of repercussions in trade agreements.

But not only. Also with regard to the recognition of an absolutely illogical quality, which consists in granting social, political or ideological demands to organizations that attack social, productive and institutional systems. It is desirable that the diplomatic representations of Mexico, embassies and consulates, especially in the United States and Canada, take charge of containing this absurd tendency, in the end, it is to grant a quality that these organizations certainly do not have. .

I must emphasize that the call for justice for the LeBaron family and thousands of others must be, or should be, at the center of any program or policy for restoring and strengthening public safety. Thus, the approach to criminal activity, in its broadest terms, cannot be conceptualized or treated under legal conditions as an expression of social or political nonconformity. Thus, it is difficult to explain how the United States and Canada have a partner with active expressions of “terrorism.” An interesting controversy.

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