Since the beginning of this century, the traditional Mexican state security apparatus has been in free fall. Mexico is experiencing one of its most serious security crises in modern history (Zizumbo-Colunga, 2019: 580). At the beginning of his term, in 2006, the country’s then President Felipe Calderón sent some 6500 soldiers to the lawless state of Michoacán to confront the growing power of the drugs cartels. Rather than dismantling them, the crackdown unleashed the fury and fire power of the criminal underworld across the country (Viales, 2025). Ever since, the country has become hostage to their indiscriminate violence.