Crime INC: the global take over
Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicated “Organized crime has globalized and turned into one of the world’s foremost economic and armed powers,”. He was yet to experience Culiacan where a plainclothes army disrupted the arrest of Ovidio Guzman, son and business heir to el CHAPO currently serving a life sentence in the US. In 12 minutes, the Guzman army was able to paralyze Culiacan; isolate the army platoon that had arrested Ismael Guzman; rendered impossible the arrival of support from the Mexican army. Truth of the matter is that Culiacan will enter history as the event that laid plain and clear an ugly reality that most would like to continue ignoring, organized crime is a geopolitical reality that can confront and defeat a nation state. International demand for drugs, arms, money laundering, counterfeiting, illicit trade in stolen goods, pornography, terrorism, and computer-related crime, generate enough resources to support the commanding center. Should the events in Culiacan not produce a revisiting of international rules preventing the internationalization of law enforcement, the strengthening of the UNCTOC and the change in the rules to establish nation states the fight against organized crime seems to be uphill.

