MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
By all means let them fight, but each of these entities is an organization that extorts and terrorizes the common people.
Best way forward is what Cherán did: kick out the cartels, AND the police, AND the bourgeois parties, because their corruption is connected.
Here's a documentary about how they did it.
The Zapatistas also do a good job of keeping cartels out, though I'm not sure how appealing Chiapas is to the cartels.
I think the cartels get all the territory they can; Chiapas is not appealing thanks to the Zapatistas.