NUESTRA APARENTE RENDICIÓN QUEREMOS CONSTRUIR PAZ Y DIÁLOGO. POR ESO ESTAMOS AQUÍ

“Hay dos maneras principales en las que los niños se involucran en la guerra: como participantes activos y como víctimas. Estas dos formas no se excluyen mutuamente; muchos niños se vuelven víctimas al tomar un rol activo en la guerra o se unen a la lucha armada al sentirse víctimas de la guerra.” –Ignacio Martín Baró en “La guerra y el trauma psicosocial de los niños salvadoreños” Prefacio Estas son reflexiones y desahogos de una primera lectura del secuestro y asesinato del niño Christopher por 5 niños, niñas y adolescentes en una localidad semi rural de Chihuahua capital. Es un escaneo de los signos que proyecta la cobertura de los medios en relación a la necesidad de tener en operación…

It has been an honor to procure the Weary Bystanders project for the last three years. The blog was born out of the need to counter prejudice in the news pieces that were being published in English. My founding partner David Colmenares and I have the conviction that this war needs to be covered respectfully, portraying Mexico in all its complexity. Better coverage has emerged, although in part because there have been more scandalous acts of violence to report on. President Peña Nieto’s strategy of letting reforms and alimentary campaigns tame the need to seek justice and a revision of the current strategy of the war against drugs is failing. I end my involvement with the blog because I lack…

American actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death by a heroin overdose on February 2 has indirectly called attention –again- on whether there is something to be gained out of pursuing a war on drugs.   His onscreen persona often revealed the darker and subtler aspects of human nature of several of his memorable characters. Perhaps the gift that parts with him begs us to look into the ironies of drug prohibition.  Hoffman’s death has also, apparently, been used by the DEA as political ammunition towards Mexican authorities, as a way of indicating that too much heroin is still crossing the border and killing Americans, according to the crime analysis portal InSight Crime. We often fail to see in reality what Phillip…