Abstract The official narrative of Mexico's so-called War on Drugs, often framed within rigid boundaries and clearly defined divisions, obscures the more porous and diffuse forms of war governance that emerge through unpredictable violence. Based on extensive ethnographic research and press documentation of feminicides in the indigenous region of Zongolica, along the Gulf of Mexico, this article investigates how the construction of impunity—rooted in the discursive devaluation of women's lives, bodies, and testimonies—reveals deeper forces of territorial conquest and the expansion of extractivism. It also explores the hidden dynamics shaping the transformation of state sovereignty in indigenous territories, marked by exploitation and systemic violence, alongside the resistance efforts of organized indigenous women.
Natalia De Marinis (Tue,) studied this question.