Mexico is experiencing an unparalleled crisis. Looting of self-service stores and small businesses in popular areas, and campaigns in social networks that promote violence and fear, have appeared during this first week of the year in 29 of the 32 states of the country. The apparent cause of this unusual rebellion with criminal dyes is the sudden increase of more than 20% in the price of gasoline. However, a more detailed analysis of the protests, looting and the management of networks shows a more complex and worrying picture in which they combine from authentic social anger to the frank action of organized crime in the context of a state absolutely Weak and lacking in legitimacy.

The increase in the price of gasoline took the Mexicans by surprise, already fed up with the government's inaction in the fight against corruption and the growing unemployment in the south-central part of the country. A sense of boredom, anger, and despair was already perceptible in several states.