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Corruption and impunity in the security sector in Mexico

Marcos Pablo Moloeznik
*

Peace is too important to be entrusted only to armies;
the legality is too important for it to be entrusted only to the judicial structure

Leocula Orlando (2004:230)

This contribution seeks to identify those "bottlenecks" or constraints of a structural nature
that explain, to a large extent, corruption and impunity in the security sector in Mexico,

whose resolution depends, to a large extent, on the rule of law. the social coexistence and the

consolidation of the incipient democracy in our country. To this end, it will be used in

previous studies and analyzes, understood as security sector, the sum of the following three
components: armed forces, police institutions and intelligence services (FLACSO Chile,

2007).

1. Approach to corruption and impunity

* Professor-Researcher of the Department of Political Studies, University Center of Social Sciences and
Humanities of the University of Guadalajara and National Researcher Level II of the National System of
Researchers, Mexico. A preliminary version in Spanish language was developed under the title Challenges and
remedies against corruption and impunity in the security sector of Mexico, for publication in the collective work
coordinated by Arturo Zárate, "Challenges and remedies against corruption and impunity. in Mexico ", from El
Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in press.

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