Social Cleansing

During the last decade we have all grown to understand the concept of Ethnic Cleansing. The new idea which we need to get used to is called Social Cleansing.

In much of South and Central America, including in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras Social Cleansing is a common phenomenon. Social Cleansing is defined as the targeted elimination of people or groups within a society who are considered to be undesirable, worthless, or dangerous. So this type of cleansing has nothing to do with one’s ethnicity. But if you are in the lowest socioeconomic class, and you are a drug addict or a drug dealer, it is basically not dangerous to murder you. There is almost no chance that the murder will ever be investigated or that you will be prosecuted or convicted.

Mexico can now be added to the list of countries where execution of these undesirables who are considered disposable human beings is fully accepted and practiced on a daily basis.

In Mexico the name given to these drug addicts, the homeless, and other people at the bottom of the social hierarchy is “malandros.” And in Juarez there is almost complete impunity for murdering them.

This is where a country ends up when it ignores honesty, clean politics, and the idea of rule of law. This is also why I find it so offensive when an American law enforcement officer encourages others to break the laws or begins accepting payment under the table for favors done.

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