The End of the Dream

Abstract

By 2013, CRAC’s internal cohesion cracked, and the grassroots democracy of community police had been distorted. There were three major ruptures with CRAC: in 2010 with the Union of Peoples and Organizations of the State of Guerrero (UPOEG); in 2013 with the communities of Tixtla, Olinalá, and Ayutla; and the third from a severe fracture within leadership of San Luis Acatlán House of Justice. All the parties involved in the rupture blamed the government, even though all of them then negotiated separately with the government. The battle for leadership also caused a battle to control economic interests.