Friday, December 10, 2010

Kates Playground Sets Full

When the culture of cruelty pervades


Probably if you had to start writing about Mexico, and I had to choose the topic that would deepen, will never end scoring opportunities in a draft that gives me this North American country and I fraternally him out of that concept, will hop into my political and geographical protocols, for inclusion in the Latin American context. That's where I think it should be. Based in the border between North and Central America, but it is not the same as the line dividing the continent is on top, alongside the United States, to the south, which is neighboring Guatemala.

Mexico is an inexhaustible cultural wellspring that not provide facilities for choosing this particular theme to represent words in a couple of pages. However, and unfortunately for those who do not know their culture or history, neither would have an easy time choosing what content to represent Mexican society today. If you let go for what news show every day in the news, would surely a picture far removed from what I think, yes, describe a country that unfortunately began to get used to it as such, imbued with a culture of cruelty, where corruption and violence is the daily bread.

understand, and defend, you can not categorize an entire society by the attitudes of a few and some isolated incidents that do not represent the idiosyncrasies of an entire nation. However, when these anti-social or antisocial acts are becoming more and more everyday is that something went wrong, something must be wrong with that rocks the cradle of culture, education and childhood, because children are yesterday's men today. I say men because it is on this human race, the male, which fall all the blame or suspicion of a society, in part, sexist, racist, xenophobic, violent and corrupt.

Yes, I guess, as I read many Mexican friends, they are putting the fuss and, among other things, remembering my sainted mother and all my honorable ancestors. But we should not forget that a free and intelligent society should start looking in the mirror first to avoid a misconception of itself. As I said at the beginning, there are many positive themes that could have chosen to refer to Mexico, but I will not fool anyone, this is not the case. Try to be honest criticizing and denouncing what seems unfair to me, otherwise there is no need to emphasize, is what we deserve anywhere in the world, justice.

Yesterday afternoon, home from work with headphones plugged into their ears listening to the radio talk shows and interviews Gemma Nierga Cadena Ser interviewing a Mexican journalist, Rosa Isela Perez, who lives in exile in Spain with her family, forced by the death threats he received in his country, in retaliation to their complaints against abuses and violations, especially against the femicide in Ciudad Juarez. Yesterday, the General Council of English Lawyers rewarded by the their courageous work in the Human Rights Awards CGAE XII. Rosa or Rosie, as he called Gemma, she refused to accept that after all these thousands of murders of young women and girls was a mass murderer, not even an organized group or several groups that are devoted to rape and murder women, the blame lay on society, male, who accustomed to the guilty pay for their punishment for their misdeeds ever put the red line further from the cruelty illegal.

Leaving behind this cruel and traumatic case, we stumbled upon the social contradiction regarding racism. Hard to understand that, as recently as few months, Mexico full justice cry out against racist laws in the state of Arizona and, instead, it seems as if racism suffered by the majority of the population, with 65% indigenous genes, by a racial minority to be as normal in the world. The face of Mexico is primarily indigenous, however, the color of the skin is not enough in this country to understand racism. Slim, the richest man in Mexico and the Arab world is a black, part of the Jews who dominate the country's big cities are skin and dark hair, and many of the blacks and English are bald. This minority, which elsewhere might be victims of racism, in this case are privileged against the native or indigenous. It is anti-Indian culture, the rejection of all indigenous cultural heritage. It seems as if it was worth the post-Cuahutémoc the detriment of the pre-Hispanic. Just look at the poverty in which the majority of Mexico's indigenous peoples to realize the project of society to eradicate completely the original cultures.

paragraph of insecurity and drug trafficking is of a depth greater than all others. We know the war that is waged every day, especially among gangsters in every corner of the country and splashed in all social environments. No is safe, no one is sure to be a victim of injustice that Mexico is, whether or not related to drug trafficking. The worst thing is not what we are accustomed to and murderers, but to every action cruel surprise us more. The latest is the arrest of "child assassin", no wonder if it was not really about a child, a boy of 14 years with several deaths in her precocious resume, in charge of beheading victims appeared later hung the bridges or wherever it attractive to more spectacular bloody tragedy.

dig deeper into the wound of the Mexican reality no is not pleasant, if perhaps disturbing, because if we look at the geographical and social map of Central America will see that, contrary to curb all these injustices and cruelty, evil spreads like an oil slick on paper, on the reality is seen in countries like Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, at the gateway all unwanted import, but also shows part of racism, sexism, violence, corruption, and where drug gangsters begin long their influence.

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