visited the Mexican Red Cross in company president, Daniel Goñi Díaz. The hospital has been completely renovated. With legitimate pride, I Goñi Díaz demonstrated the technology in the operating rooms and tidy rooms. Suddenly, we came to a hallway where there were only single rooms. A special treat? The president of the Red Cross is a notary. Until that time, had spoken in the tone of one who mentioned clauses which can only agree. With a deep voice said: "These rooms allow for greater vigilance." He was not referring to medical care, but police custody: "Here we look at the criminals, our obligation is to provide assistance to everyone."
financial networks of drug trafficking and infiltration of senior government intact
The main function of desert areas is provide shelter and options outstanding as of the drug
I asked him what was his biggest challenge in front of the Red Cross. Does the Flu epidemic? "That was a false alarm from the beginning we knew we were exaggerating. My son had practiced riding and competition in Veracruz, near where the first outbreak. I told him to. Our greatest challenge is different: to keep the wounded into ambulances. Many have to do with organized crime. We stopped the ambulance and then finished them off. " Objective chance that the Red Cross wanted to be located in the Avenue of the Army. More and more war casualties arriving to the emergency ramp.
Very far away, in the municipality of Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosi, lies a desert where coyotes short supply as people. Hunting and emigration to the United States have cleared the area. From time to time, a settlement is in sight. I spent Easter in one of them. A cousin of mine struggles to fix the ruins of a hacienda. At night, the town is plunged into a silence only rent by the howling of a dog. This calm preceded the arrival of three black vans, manned by gunmen. A girl kidnapped, beat up a farmer, raided a petrol station. We holed up behind a gate and fled to date next. The trucks are still there and my cousin could not return.
The Mexican desert is shifting owners. In the interview that the kingpin Ismael El Mayo Zambada gave Julio Scherer Garcia said: "The mountain is my home, my family, my protection, my land." Has had nearly four times the Army, but has escaped, "Hui in the mountains, which I know the branches, streams, rocks, everything. I grab if I am still or neglect me." The fugitive says more than it appears. His ability to escape is less significant than the fact that it has a vast territory. The main function of desert areas is to offer shelter and options outstanding as drug trafficking.
horseback 100 years ago by Pancho Villa crossed a nation where 80% of the population lived in the country. That ratio has been reversed. Except in the fertile areas, the countryside is a wasteland where only occurs. Collective ownership of land (the ejido) prevents private investment. Land distribution after the revolution was largely a demagogic operation to make up statistics and destroyed the old productive units. The land was subdivided into non-functional properties: pawn subject, the peasants became owners unarmed. The drug has an empty country: no man's land hinterland, rear. The world is not without Mexicans, but to the field. In the desert everything happens for exception. Daniel Sada's novels show that there any event is critical. In times of technology and poverty, no one offered the land to the local shelter that is planned global illegal computer.
cinema, music, literature and painting obsessively occupied that territory until the fifties of last century. Then it ceased to be rural in the imagination. Peasants to the cities or the United States. Few people, as Sada, perceived that something changed in the largest cache of America.
According to Leonardo Valdes, Minister President of the Federal Electoral Institute, the absence of safety difficult to install boxes in at least 15% of the territory. A strip on the sidelines of sovereignty.
Four years ago President Felipe Calderon launched the drug war. Depending on the counts have been between 23,000 and 32,000 dead. The problem, of course, came from afar. But the strategy failed. We were sitting on dynamite and lit a match Calderón to check. "All Making war on drugs is to raise the price of narcotics without significantly reducing demand, "said Marcelo Bergman, PhD in Sociology of Law, University of California.
financial networks of drug trafficking and infiltration of senior government intact. On the other hand, the combat seems to be selective. According to Edgardo Buscaglia, UN consultant, 28% of the arrests have affected the Beltran Leyva cartel, the main opponents of Chapo Guzman, and only 1% have played the most powerful drug lords (the remaining 71% is up to other posters). In the escalation of Violence has emerged narcoterrorism attacking civilians: throwing grenades in a square in Morelia, riddled youth at a party in Ciudad Juarez, blocking all access roads to Monterrey, messages on Internet accounts of users Mazatlan, Tampico, Cuernavaca and other locations.
While widespread terror, leading politicians are selected as victims. Diego Fernandez de Cevallos of the PAN candidate for president in 1994, is kidnapped in May (possibly by a guerrilla group), in the last four months have been executed nine mayors, and Rodolfo Torre Cantú, candidate PRI governor of Tamaulipas, was assassinated in June.
Konzevik Economist David has the gift of understanding markets and the superior gift of explaining. I recently commented: "The main economic problem is the occupation of Mexico. The worst thing is not that formal jobs are lost, but the unemployed are other options. And all are illegal." Drug trafficking, weapons, women are the options that speaks Konzevic. In this capitalism without copyright piracy monopolies coexist with tax evaders.
The predominant age in Mexico is 16 years. These young people were conceived in the euphoria 1993, when we were preparing to enter the "first world" with the FTA. But born in 1994, when we returned to reality with the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the Zapatista uprising and the devaluation of the peso. What awaits horizon? No options work, educational, religious or sports that offer a sense of belonging as strong as organized crime. Rossana Reguillo has studied the cultural variable brightness of the subject. Unable to include young people, the state tends to criminalize them beforehand as "juvenile delinquents." This has operated as a self-fulfilling prophecy itself: the posters have offered identity and code-sharing.
The balance of the battle against drugs is unknown to key actors. Little is know about the Army and the different perspectives are taken there. But above all, is what we know of no United States. The DEA has brought fame to the Mexican drug lords. This foreign policy has no domestic counterpart. The main consumer of drugs and weapons operating in the shade. Mexico brings the dead, that is, the stories. Where is the other part of the narrative?
Recover social fabric passes through the culture. In Medellín and Bogotá two mathematicians become mayor, Fajardo and mokuso, understood libraries to combat violence. Include youth in society is a costly and time consuming task to buy weapons, but also more dignified. A Mexico does not save the bullets, so save the people.
"Do you know who are the major contributors in the collection of the Red Cross?" I asked Daniel Goni Diaz at the end of my visit: "Poor."
The forgotten do not forget the country.
JUAN Villoro. THE
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