The End of the Recurring Guerrilla in Mexico?
This research focuses on the historical emergence of guerrilla movements intended to overthrow the post-revolutionary Mexican State. The revolutionary process of 1910 consolidated a corporatist nationstate led by the ruling party (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), which had been in power for 70 years. In 1999, Mexican writer Carlos Montemayor showed that Mexico has been characterized as a region with a marked and permanent presence of guerrilla movements. Twenty-five years later (2024), a dissipation of these expressions can be observed. The objective of this work is to analyze the internal and external processes that have generated this possible rest. Methodology: the research is qualitative, the phenomenological-hermeneutical method was used and a documentary investigation was carried out, returning to four elements: state violence, the reestablishment of institutions (AMLO's triumph in 2018), consolidation of revolutionary power and the strengthening of drug trafficking. Results: It is maintained that there is a rest in the guerrilla recurrence, the result of four processes: 1. The dissolution of guerrilla groups by the Mexican State. 2. The triumph of a center-left government in 2018. 3. A change in the Latin American paradigm involving guerrilla militants obtaining positions of popular representation and 4. Strengthening drug trafficking groups in the country.
