Repensar y ampliar la democracia

El caso del Municipio Autónomo de Cherán K’eri

Abstract

This article proposes that the relationship between legal and illegal practices is a constitutive fact of the present phase of capitalism, and also useful for the concentration and accumulation of capital. Criminal activities penetrate the economy, politics and fractions of the State, that finally conceal or associate the mafia networks. All of this propiciates public-private violences that are useful to impose the global model but to disseminate fear and to prevent resistance, too. But, communitarian practices, which in the article are considered as some of the most successful local experiencies, are an example of resistence which explores new ways of the political life. This article analyze the Municipio Autónomo Cherán K’eri case, as an example of reinvention and amplification of the security, juridical and participation practices in our democracies.