Francisco Goldman
30 de octubre, 2014
Most of the students were still in their teens, in their first semester at the school, and came from impoverished communities that a majority of Mexicans can identify with; they can’t credibly be criminalized as “guerrillas” or “narcos.”
The outrage has brought a few promising results.
The Mexican media, including the newspaper El Universal, have been reporting that Governor Aguirre and Maria de los Ángeles Pineda were lovers.
Mexico’s decadent political culture.
On Tuesday, as I do most mornings, I asked SinEmbargo’s director, my friend Alejandro Páez Varela, what was new that day. “We’re under attack!” he said.
...mostly carried out on social networks.
Belinda.
When I arrived at the SinEmbargo’s offices on Tuesday, Alejandro Páez showed me some of the posts that had been appearing on Belinda’s Facebook page,
Many of the posts claimed that Páez was wanted by the city prosecutor’s office on rape charges.
One photo, which purported to show Páez being led away by police with a jacket pulled over his face, was included in a post claiming that he had been arrested at the SinEmbargo offices that very day.
“Look around, it’s mostly young women working here,” exclaimed Páez, “and I feel responsible for their protection!”
“Let’s face it,” he said, “You have to be a cabrón to govern this country.”
The outcome of the national student strike will be revealing. How many universities, colleges, and institutes will stick with it, and for how long? Will it spread to other areas of society, to the high schools, for example, as the recent student strikes in Chile did, bringing about significant changes in that country? When masses of students boycott classes, it fills a country with an air of emergency and danger. The nation must ask itself what it will take to get them back into classrooms.
Flawed and abused as it has been, the country is still a democracy.
In 2000, Mexican voters finally put an end to seventy-one years of authoritarian and corrupt PRI rule,
What many Mexicans have been telling me is this: It’s either now or never.
Mi opinión: es todo menos crítico.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/crisis-mexico-forty-three-missing-students-spark-revolution
http://opinionalpunto.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/es-ahora-o-nunca-dice-francisco-goldman.html?spref=tw
