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

Calderon created “mayhem” and psychosis everywhere in Mexico and destroyed Mexico’s image all over the world by sending the armed forces to fight crime on the streets and among the innocent population.  Viridiana Rios, a scholar from Harvard University seems to think differently.   To make my point I will remind you about the search and persecution of those believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon explosions. People were asked not to go out unnecessarily, and a state of fear overcame the whole population.  There had been a violent encounter between supposed criminals and the authorities.  The Bostonians were right to be afraid to go out. Is it useful to ask who started the war on drugs in Mexico?…

Once again the American battle drums are being beaten for a ‘humanitarian intervention’ in the Syrian civil war. The excuse is very well known. It is a rerun of the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ discourse. But we know what lies behind this farce.  This new postmodern crusade is being fought for the sake of energy and free markets.   By pointing out and emphasizing Syria’s people as victims it then becomes easy to make them conventional and temporary symbols that justify intervention. But this end-means rationality has backfired on numerous occasions, as shown in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Substantial evidence has piled up in order to safely claim that the original intention of meddling in foreign lands is dysfunctional and…

The search for the suspects   My sister Tesalia lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with her husband. They live but a few blocks away from where the shooting and killing of the MIT cop happened.  Tesalia and I have lived apart for the past eight years, but it was only last Thursday I truly felt the distance, as the biological imperative to protect her overcame me.   For almost four years I have kept track of the behavior of violence in Mexico, I have listened to shootouts, drove by crime scenes, I even was in the middle of a riot last December… I have listened to dozens of testimonies of violence and nothing had prepared me to face the impotence –and…