ARTURO DURAZO
An oversensitive immune system is reacting to pathogens as well as to harmless materials it is supposed to be fighting. Cancer cells shut down immune systems in order to prosper. Systems have similar qualities, whether in living organisms, or States. Many theories explain the rampant corruption in Mexico: the Aztecs themselves were a corrupt society centuries before: culture of Spanish aristocracy reinvigorated hypocrisy, and brought concept of double standards into Mexico, building on traditional structures of violence and double standards. The megalithic political fabric of Mexican society built on the legacy of the past created natural habitat for species of ultracorrupted political heroes, stars of wickedness: one of them was Arturo Durazo, obscure personage of the political ambit in the 80s, boss of the metropolitan police and head of transports in Mexico City. Durazo, considered one of the most corrupt, incompetent, and criminal chief of police ever, became a legendary celebrity after revelation of his life secrets and publishing of his autobiography, written by his bodyguard after his death: his personality became notoriously famous thanks to extreme prepotence, nepotism, abuse of power and corruption, which under his spiritual leadership evolved into extreme unseen before. Arturo Durazo Moreno, was born in the northern state of Sonora in 1924 and left in young age to Mexico City, in the search of opportunities. After arrival from Sonora and moving to the quarter called Roma, he befriended his neighbour, Jose Lopez Portillo, who would decades later become the future president of Mexico: years later, this very personal encounter was to impact corruption structures in the capital. Young Durazo studied successfully accounting in Polytechnical University and after the studies was hired by the Central Bank of Mexico. Later on, he left the Bank, became Transport Inspector in Mexico City and entered the secret services called “White Brigades”, that were responsible for repression of the oppository political movement, during a period that use to be called “The dirty war ". Once José López Portillo became president, he recalled his childhood friend and named Arturo the Head of the Police and Transport Ministry of Mexico City. The 5 year term of Portillo’s rule and Durazo’s police management was marked by a rampant, sophisticated corruption, when the police officers were racketed by their own bosses and had to pay bribes to their superiors, which in turn made them worse in the streets. The extorsion within the police body caused creation of another body, Directorate of the Prevention against Delincuency, strengthening the absurd situation ruling in the police body. Directorate became infamous for covering of guilty police officers: the head of it was Durazo’s friend. These policemen were covering the worst criminals to liberate them subsequently for a bribe. Torture became widespread tool of interrogation whether to make the suspect admit crimes he comitted or crimes he did not commit at all. The impunity was one of the main characteristics of policemen in that time. Durazo proclaimed himself a general, although he did not study a military career, which brought him hatred of the military officers. The abuse of power was so evident, as was the illicit enrichment, strengthened by institutionalized nexus between police and the drug trafficers. Chilangos, citizens of Mexico City, started to call the unscrupulous Arturo, „Black Durazo”. In 1978, society was moved by the murder of politician Nayarita Flores Muñoz, ex-governor of one of the federal states and his wife, brutally hacked to death by machete blows in a luxurious quarter Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico city. The investigation started and pression upon the police was enormous. The enquiries estimates were pointing upon an act of armed robbery, but proofs were insufficient. Years later, evidence pointed at Durazo’s subordinates. Another event, latterly related to Durazo, was the apparition of 12 corpses in the air shaft of the canalization system in the federal state of Hidalgo, called Masacre of the river Tula. The bodies showed signs of extreme torture and mutilation, some of them with their heads still conserved in plastic bags. Some were decapitated, others slashed with machetes. The facts were denounced by a police officer, who accused his boss Arturo Durazoof of intellectual authorship of the ghastly crime. The dead, formed a band of criminals exploited by Durazo, who released them from the jail to rob banks to keep the loot. The group was held in secret jails and the La Castaneda psychiatric hospital, tortured and murdered, then dumped into the sewer. Three years after Durazo entered the office, his personality started appearing in the medias, as he successfully intervened during the kidnapping of the first lady and received highest state honours, “the Golden Microphone” from the National Association of Broadcasters as well as the membership of the League of honour, and was absurdly named Doctor Honoris Cause by the supreme tribunal of justice of Mexico City. He never studied military academy, yet became a general: he never studied law nor belonged to Bar association, yet became a man of Law. And so, brute butcher and police Antichrist Arturo Durazo became a lawyer, just as Hernan Cortes had become. After the end of the governance of Lopez Portillo, the press noticed the enormous wealth and uninimaginable luxury amassed by Durazo during his public function. In the south of the city, he built two swiss style mansions. His foul, putrid brain structures and his structured desire to make as much money as possible, continued working: in the bay of Zihuatanejo, close to Acapulco, his people copied minutiously to detail the Greek Parthenon into marbel. The equipment revealed incredible waste of luxurious expenditure. He even let remove the decorative trellage from the Castle of Chapultepece, the shrine of Mexican history, where once lived the emperor Maxmilian, to install them onto gate of one of his property: or built the exact copy of the discoteque 54 in New York, not speaking about hippodroms, heliports, zoo´s and artificial lakes. Once the country entered a prolonged economic crisis, during which leaving president Portillo unhappily nationalized the banking industry, Durazo was indited and fled to USA. The US police soon started search for him due to his involvement in the drug business. In 1984, he was finally detained by Interpol and extradited to his motherland. The investigation called on by new president de la Madrid blamed Durazo for theft of 60 million pesos and extorsion and he was imprisoned for 8 years.
