Dangerous corpses in Mexico’s drug war
Dangerous corpses in Mexico’s drug war
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墨西哥毒品战争中的危险尸体
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2020
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Regnar Kristensen
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On 16 December 2009, 400 heavily armed soldiers from the Mexican marine forces entered an enclosed residential zone in the city of Cuernavaca to arrest the drug baron Beltr á n Leyva, leader of the Mexican drug cartel of the same name. He was classifi ed as the most violent drug cartel leader on the planet by the American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and as an extremely dangerous enemy of the fatherland by the Mexican president, Felipe Calder ó n. For several hours, the marines were engaged in heavy shooting with the end result that Beltr á n Leyva was killed, along with three of his hit men and one marine. Th e Mexican press generally considered this incident a success story of the Mexican government’s harder law-enforcement measures in the current war on organised crime. My approach to this incident, however, is not to analyse the hypercomplex discourse on state, law enforcement and organised crime in Mexico. Rather, I will take this story as a departure point for exploring the governance of dead bodies, which starts where it ends for most scholars of political science and criminology. As the contributions to this volume show, the corpse is not always the end of the story. On the contrary, as we shall see, a corpse still holds the power to stir up more death. Th e overall argument is that the brutal treatment of corpses transgresses the spheres of national security politics and the simple spread of terror. Corpses are instead seen as a social force that enchants politics and socialises religion. Th ey make the past present