Militarization and Neoextractivism: A Dominating double apparatus

Abstract

One of the main characteristics of the State in Latin America and Mexico is its deep relationship with the use of militia as a repressive agent and its immediate link with organized crime. A common denominator in our country is the use of militia to support civil governments throughout history and the government at service of private companies and drug trafficking. The objective of this article is to analyze the processes of militarization in Mexico, with the goal of understanding how military presence responds to
domination as a mechanism for the State to establish control on the population. Likewise, different agents in the problem of militarization in the country and their forms of action are analyzed. In addition to this, we see how, along with this phenomenon, criminal violence is also used as a medium of dispossession in favor of large corporations. We analyze four cases to observe how violence in Mexico is used, alongside militarization, as a way of domination to continue perpetuating an unequal relationship between classes.