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The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise of the \"a-state.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis war scenario is establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control developed by the United States government and enforced through its global network of military bases and the multinational corporations that work in synergy with its espionage agencies. Geopolitics take advantage of social instability, drug cartels, state repression, and paramilitarism to establish the foundations of a world order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSergio Gonzalez Rodriguez argues that this surveillance and control model has been imposed on the international community through extreme neoliberal ideology, free markets, the globalized economy, and the rise of the information society. The threats are clear. 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This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eThe Femicide Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano's \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e and as a literary detective in Javier Mar as's nove\u003ci\u003el Dark Back of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Sergio Gonz lez Rodr guez is one of Mexico's most important contemporary writers. 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