Last Wednesday, April 06, there was yet another march against the killings by the DTOs, voices raised in support for the Mexican poet Javier Secilia whose son, Juan Francisco Sicilia, was killed March 28 in Cuernavaca, Morelos (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/04/07/thousands-march-violence-mexico/) along with 6 others. On this same day, while the march was taking place, police in Tamaulipas discovered several narcofosas, or mass graves, that contained at least 59 bodies (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/08/mexico-drug-war-tamaulipas-mass-grave-bodies).
How are these two events related? Javier Secilia calling for a march against the government is nothing new here in Mexico (and, unfortunately neither are the narcofosas), for, every time a relative of a prominent Mexican is murdered (Fernando Marti, or Hugo Wallace), the good people are outraged, take to the streets for a day and demand change. But, there is no march today for these 59 (all sons and daughters) as there were no demands for a march, or call for change, by Secilia prior to March 28. This is not unusual as other powerful voices will speak out in the future, demanding change, but for now are silent, and will remain so, until the events that effect others (37,774 dead and counting) directly effect them.
This grotesque NIMBY-ism alone, speaks greater volumes than the thousands who participated in the marches last Wednesday, chanting, crying, demanding and then going home at the end of the day to their routines having vented their collective spleen (sadly, those in power know that this is the norm and they need only wait a day or two...maybe a week...and it will blow over). It is these other voices that need to speak out now rather than when the violence directly effects them, as it is now directly effecting so many others in Mexico (who seem to have little or no voice on the national stage).
For a map of the killings: click: Narco-killings
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How are these two events related? Javier Secilia calling for a march against the government is nothing new here in Mexico (and, unfortunately neither are the narcofosas), for, every time a relative of a prominent Mexican is murdered (Fernando Marti, or Hugo Wallace), the good people are outraged, take to the streets for a day and demand change. But, there is no march today for these 59 (all sons and daughters) as there were no demands for a march, or call for change, by Secilia prior to March 28. This is not unusual as other powerful voices will speak out in the future, demanding change, but for now are silent, and will remain so, until the events that effect others (37,774 dead and counting) directly effect them.
This grotesque NIMBY-ism alone, speaks greater volumes than the thousands who participated in the marches last Wednesday, chanting, crying, demanding and then going home at the end of the day to their routines having vented their collective spleen (sadly, those in power know that this is the norm and they need only wait a day or two...maybe a week...and it will blow over). It is these other voices that need to speak out now rather than when the violence directly effects them, as it is now directly effecting so many others in Mexico (who seem to have little or no voice on the national stage).
For a map of the killings: click: Narco-killings
Website: WM Consulting
Follow on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/wmmckay
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ReplyDeleteHow about instead of calling them "narcofosas" we call them "DEAth Pits?"
ReplyDeleteAnd while we're at it, instead of calling it the US government — which clearly doesn't represent us — we begin call our federal government the THEM government? (Totally Hypocritical Expensive Monstrosity)
This IS coming: Matthew 21:32-43, Mark 12:1-13 . You people who hate LEAP, you are in power now, but read those parables. You will not only be kicked out of power, but kicked out of the pleasant surroundings you now have. And lots more stuff you can read on your own. And the same goes for the religious leaders who tell you lies, like the evil lie that you are doing God's work.