The construction of the reality: the power groups and their influence on crime in Mexico

Abstract

This paper postulates that in Mexico today, government representatives and media owners have the power to manipulate the mexican populations perception of reality. In that sense, it is analyzed how these people and groups with power can create crime and decide who is criminalized when legislating, through the exercise of criminal action whose monopoly is held by the prosecutor›s offices dependent on the executive branch; through judicial decisions and using the mass media. In this way, under the fiction that the State represents the interests of all, the administration of justice is carried out in a selective and inequitable manner and the media show and dictate what people should believe. The paper concludes that the instruments to confront distortions of perception and to get closer to reality are scientific knowledge and critical thinking, although a large part of the mexican population is becoming less interested in these, without realizing that democracy is being undermined.