Alejandro Arcos is the second politician to be killed in a week in the city of Chilpachingo.

The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office.

Alejandro Arcos was found dead on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero. He had been mayor for six days.

Evelyn Salgado, the state governor, said the city was in mourning over a murder that “fills us with indignation”. His death came three days after the city government’s new secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot dead.

Authorities have not released details of the investigation, or suspects. However, Guerrero is one of the worst-affected states for drug violence and drug cartels have murdered dozens of politicians across the country.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    2 months ago

    The only way to eliminate drugs is to switch to the digital peso…

    Let’s ignore the fact that Mexico is poor. They got technology. Guns are illegal in Mexico and they got guns, I rest my case.

    Imagine a card that you could get at any bank which holds a physical record of your money. A backup would be kept as a record at all banks. There’s no Bitcoin shit happening, it’s just a credit card subsidized and maintained by the government. If you make money, it goes into it, if you spend money it goes out. Pretty simple. Eliminate the peso coins and physical money, it that will eliminate the cartels. The government would know who hasn’t paid taxes, and they would take taxes automatically. The cards can never go negative so you won’t have a US-like credit issue, you’ll just run out of money.

    Out in the wild, there’s internet via musk web satellites.

    If the government has all the accounts, they can just rank them by size and location and investigate anyone quickly who might be getting paid illegally. Then the only way to get drug money would be thru money laundering. So that’s where investigators would quickly figure out who’s got money to buy a house and who just bought 10 houses without any money.

    It could be interesting.

    • Pieisawesome@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      You do know the cartels mostly deal in USD?

      In order to deal in pesos they would import their USD from the US, then convert it into pesos?

      That makes no sense.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        Sure but I lived through “El Nuevo peso” era. It happened just like that. Today you got 500pesos, tomorrow your 500 peso coin is still valid but everything is divided by 10. So the government sent out ads on the radio and TV for months about the change. And you could also go to the bank to exchange old money for new money etc. the campaign was simple and it worked… well it worked to the end goal of changing needlessly to a new set of coins. But I mean it didn’t really do much more. With this idea I’m proposing, which is probably not at all new, they can identify where money is going and where it’s coming from.

            • 5dh@lemmy.zipEnglish
              51·
              2 months ago

              Volatility, traceability and high TX fees come to mind. Also, who accepts Bitcoin?

                • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  The miss that sells me tacos in the corner does not accept it yo, only cash :(

                  • explodicleEnglish
                    1·
                    2 months ago

                    If you do a Yelp search and check “accepts cryptocurrency”, then you should be able to find a taco dealer who does.

                    FWIW, drug dealers have been accepting bitcoin online since 2011.