Mexico’s drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth. Organized crime in Mexico is also a system of gendered governance—one that disciplines, controls and sometimes eliminates women to consolidate power.
Mexico’s cartels use violence against women as a means of social control
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