What does not enter through the door, enters somewhere
Another day, another operation. Another official statement. The State Special Operations Group announces the “seizure” of prohibited objects in the Culiacán penitentiary center. In eight days: 15 cell phones, their chargers, chips, a modem.
But what really paints the picture are the 30 domestically manufactured tips. Homemade weapons. Bureaucratic euphemism fails to disguise the real danger within the walls.
“In each seizure, the public ministry is informed… so that an investigation file can be opened,” says the bulletin.
The obvious question, the one they never answer: who puts them in? How do so many objects pass through the “reinforced” controls? Memory is short, but records are not.
At the beginning of the year they had already discovered firearms and an explosive device. Now they promise more “surprise investigations.” The surprise would be if they found nothing.
The periphery of the center is also a focus. In the most recent search there, they found two more cell phones and eight sharp instruments. Everything homemade. Ingenuity to break the law seems to be the only trade that is learned well inside.
The authorities expose, inform, make known. And smuggling continues. A cycle so predictable it hurts. A folder is opened, responsibilities are established… on paper. Meanwhile, in the modules, unauthorized communication and tools for violence continue to circulate.
The truth has journalists, they say. But sometimes the truth is so repetitive that it becomes filler news. And that’s the saddest thing.
