This work arises from the need to explain the historical, political, social and legal processes that allowed the approval in Mexico of the Internal Security Law in 2017. For Carlos Juan Núñez Rodríguez, this law not only gave more power to the Armed Forces nor is it the product of the whim of the deputies and senators, soldiers, governors and the head of the executive, rather it puts us before the need to remember a set of coups d'état, states of exception and genocides that have been experienced in the last 30 years in our country.

One of the central objectives of this work is to analyze these processes that have been ignored in the debates on the approval of the Internal Security Law.

The political, social and economic events that led to the imposition of said Law include three coups d'état and a series of states of exception under different modalities over three decades. Neoliberalism required the state of economic exception and economic genocide as technologies of power that guarantee its permanence in government structures to continue with the imposition of the model.