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Given its vast border with the United States, Mexico is a strategic trade and economic development region, which creates significant challenges in combating crime and violence. In recent years, Mexico´s federal and state governments have focused their efforts on the development of strategies to combat and weaken the criminal structures operating in the country by using legal instruments such as seizure, abandonment, and extinction of domain. This study seeks to identify the challenges faced by the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, and Tamaulipas in their efforts to combat crime through the collection of primary and secondary data and interviews with key actors. Mexico faces major challenges in the development of public policies to fortify the legal precepts of extinction of domain, in addition to fostering institutional links with the Financial and Patrimonial Intelligence Units of Mexico's northern Border States. There are few studies about subnational efforts for asset forfeiture as a policy instrument against criminal elements in developing countries. The Mexican case presents important subnational efforts to improve security strategies that may provide guidance for other subnational governments or regions that may be facing similar challenges or are pursuing parallel initiatives.

espanolLa seguridad publica en Mexico continua siendo uno de los problemas mas importantes. La inseguridad, expresada en estadisticas sobre incidencia delictiva y encuestas sobre percepcion de inseguridad, no se ha logrado reducir. Ante dicho escenario, el articulo expone la complejidad de la seguridad publica, reconociendola como una materia que trasciende las atribuciones de distintas dependencias y ordenes de gobierno. La investigacion se enfoca en el papel de la inteligencia estrategica en las entidades federativas, reconociendola como instrumento para la toma de decisiones. Para ello, el trabajo comienza por exponer la complejidad de la seguridad publica de acuerdo con el marco legal; en segundo lugar, se expone la utilidad de la inteligencia y de la inteligencia estrategica para la seguridad publica; en tercer lugar, se expone la investigacion realizada en las 32 entidades federativas para identificar sus capacidades para generar y compartir inteligencia para la seguridad publica. La investigacion expone la falta de mecanismos para generar y compartir inteligencia al interior de las entidades federativas y entre ordenes de gobierno, asi como una vision restringida de la inteligencia orientada hacia la funcion policial, excluyendo elementos como la prevencion de la violencia y el delito ola reinsercion social. EnglishSecurity in Mexico is still being one of the most problematic issues to address. Incidence of crime statistics and perception of insecurity surveys show that insecurity has not been reduced. In this context,the article shows the complexity of public security as an issue that involves the work of different governments but also different institutions withing governments. The research focused on the role of strategic intelligence as an instrument for decision making in public security issues in Mexican states. In this way, the article begins by showing the complexity of the public security issues according with the legal frame. In second place, strategic intelligence is presented as an instrument to address public security.In third place, the article shows the results of the research conducted to identify the capabilities to produce and share intelligence in all Mexican states. The main contribution is to identify the lack of mechanisms to produce and share intelligence in Mexican states but also the limited vision of intelligence as an issue related only to policing instead of considering other elements of public security such as prevention of violence and crime or socia lreintegration of criminals.

El presente trabajo tiene dos objetivos: exponer el proceso electoral que se realizo en Nuevo Leon en 2015 y analizar varias interrogantes sobre la participacion electoral de candidatos independientes. En el caso particular del articulo, el resultado llevo a un candidato independiente a ganar la eleccion de gobernador en un contexto politico monopolizado por los partidos politicos, con reglas que dificultaron la participacion de candidatos independientes, con fuerte intervencion de los medios; asi como una campana diferente e irreverente, donde la division de los partidos, el desprestigio del gobernador y las resoluciones de tribunales equilibraron la competencia y permitieron el resultado final

Reseña del libro de Diego Enrique Osorno González (selección e introducción) et al., País de muertos. Crítica contra la impunidad, México, Debate, 2011, 328 pp.