At just 13 years old, Monica Ramirez Cano He told his dad: “I want to be in front of the bad, badI want to know what is going through her head” and her father sent her to a psychologist… after a few years she became the most important criminologist in Mexico.
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Monica Ramírez Cano. (Jorge Menendez)
“They had already kicked me out from everywhere and my dad answered me: ‘What you need is a psychologist to help you know what you want from your life’ and that is where I understand that there is a little path to get there with the bad, very bad,” said Mónica Ramírez Cano, author of Hell’s doors (Editorial Porrúa, 2022) “A walk through the sinister and dark corners of the criminal mind”
At the book launch Alfredo Campos Villeda, director of Daily Millenniumcommented: “if you are shielded by the profilers of Criminal MindsWell, here we have a real one and she’s Mexican.”
For 20 years, the psychologist and criminologist was inside the heads of the most famous criminals in Mexico and worked with femicides, pedophiles and murderers and rapists such as: The Mochaears o La Mataviejit and in the past six-year term he had to outline the priority objectives of the federal government: El Chapo Guzman, The Menchito Dámaso López, Graduateamong others.
“Each criminal, each person accused of a crime, brings a hell inside and for me, being in front of these people, is like being in front of the gates of their hell and I have to go, literally, to swim to see what is happening ”, affirmed the writer.
The book | Photo: Jorge Menendez
Mónica Ramírez Cano retired from public service and decided to write her memoirs and informal talks with her interviewees but without violating professional secrecy; where she intends to make known her life, her conduct and her motivations; thanks to the realization of the criminological profile of her, according to the Inductive Applied Research Method (MIIA) created by the author.
“I work with the darkest part of the human being and I want to understand, never justify, why a person does this? What drives him to commit heinous acts of violence? And how is he different from me? ”, He asserted.
For journalist Alfredo Campos Villeda, the book Hell’s doors It is a journey through all the years of experience of the criminologist but “it is also a personal journey since he decides to choose this profession… such a crushing world and a job that very few are willing to do”.
During the presentation at the Porrúa de la Condesa Bookstore, Ramírez Cano commented: “I see the most vile and cruel part, a violent part that we are also capable of exercising but that we decide not to”.
In addition, he considered that violent acts generate a fascination in the public, “and the people who work with crime wonder why… but it is a complex and human nature issue that must be studied and analyzed because it is not that simple.”
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For his part, Campos Villeda said that in a country where “figures do not drop below 10 femicides a day, it is very easy to say that it is the fault of social decomposition or it is neoliberalism.”
Alfredo Campos and Monica Ramirez | Photo: Jorge Menendez
Ted Bundythe first criminal identified as a “serial murderer”, the satanic narcotics, going through Goyo Cárdenas, La mataviejit, The Milwaukee Cannibal or Richard Ramirez, the night stalkerall of them are part of the universe of Mónica Ramírez Cano, who has dedicated and sacrificed part of her life to studying the cases, even living under death threats.
“Being a criminologist is not a profession, it is a lifestyle. I decided not to have human children… they are not going to become serial killers or something because of all the information I have. But the reality is that it has not been easy and of course I have needed therapeutic treatment to be able to sleep, they were alarming cases of high social impact”, he confessed.
Mónica Ramírez Cano knows that the subject of El Chapo He drew a lot of attention from the book but clarified that it is only a tiny part of what it relates.
“It seems that my book is about El Chapo and no. I deal with more topics and it is just one case that I am telling about. Working within organized crime, which is what has Mexico in a state of war, where there is no national security strategy, nor a strategy to prevent and manage, is another type of violence that I had to approach.”
In the case of Joaquín Guzmán, the criminologist pointed out that she interviewed him several times in a year.
“He considered himself a farmer, he was afraid of the dark and was reserved at first.but later, on my birthday, he told me: have a tequila and put Black pigeon”.
The author announced that she will write more books about her experiences as a criminologist where she has lived through everything.
“You get to touch the lives of several of the criminals and I think I have to leave a legacy for the people who come and want to get into the subject. But also for citizens in general who want to understand the phenomena we are going through and the book is already a reference on the subject”.
The writer | Photo: Jorge Menendez
Finally, the journalist Alfredo Campos Villeda asked the writer: what do you see that is not your specialty?
“After interviewing rapists, cannibals and serial killers, I get to the hotel, forget everything and put… Harry Potter! It’s my escape to another world and I love it.”
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