WAKE TIME Romeo Gonzalez Medrano
October 2 .... Yes
forgot!
The fact that 15 or 25 thousand protesters have gathered at the capital's main square and other groups in some cities clearly shows that the slaughter of Tlatelolco if you miss at least for the 107 million Mexicans are. Moreover, for most of those who made remembrance, October 2 represents only a fact of repression and bloody and very few have to be those with a clearer picture of what happened and the lessons it holds for the present and Mexico's future. The movement of 68
him what happened to other episodes of our history, and thanks to the legalization of this opposition and its incorporation into power, the prevailing reductionism that is limited to celebrate and tell propaganda versions of events and leaders released. Gradually
the presentation of the new generation movement was adopting the same treatment given to the great social movements or the school event, the chronicle, the telenovela, the petrified hero worship for official acts accomplished or the folklore of "The Mexican" witnessed in the celebrations of the bicentennial.
Mexico's history written and disseminated in the educational system has not been enough to better understanding in the majority of Mexicans. Worth some figures: 1 in 6 Mexicans know the year of the consummation of independence, only 3 out of 10 Mexicans know the name of the first president of Mexico and dates are not remembered much more civil than September 16: May 10, 14 February, 30 April and 12 December. Mitofsky survey report reveals not only ignorance but also of our fervor Guadalupe and globalized consumerism as a new religion.
The sheer volume of books, essays and all kinds of cultural and artistic events over 68 have apparently not been enough to keep alive the memory of events that marked a watershed in the history of contemporary Mexico.
A 42 years away, 68 ran with the same fate as the Second World War Have failed ALL NATIONS TO THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE. Even we know from surveys conducted among German youth where most shows glut of remembrance of the Nazi atrocities. It is understood that rejection is not history but a mythologized version and utilitarian who has served for many different purposes.
A phenomenon in the world and in Mexico can have many explanations from which no doubt is a reading of history rote, repetitive, and as used in those protocols of power which leads to the primary force to support children speeches cult of personality of those who have no more merit than his duty. It exalts him while Juarez which in fact contradicts his humility and his lack republican spirit.
In short, our history as a nation and myths deformed versions are manufactured both from power and from the opposition pointing out that unlike other stages, the 68 has been investigated and narrated almost entirely by their own protagonists many which became part of the political class in power which in turn criticize.
I ponder what extent the 68 have made a myth about events and people took to abort the plural reflection and critical assimilation of this movement? Why the disinterest of the majority of young people by 68? Rector himself Veracruzana University Dr. Raúl Arias Lovillo in recent days said "young people today are interested in other things. Go explanation! Can interest at 68 a generation from primary to university has not been educated in the habit of reflective thinking and critical and is now submitted by the latent frustration due to uncertain job future or no?
Let us not come with stories, many college students today are living back to the social reality, which "known" by the news of Peter Ferriz or Lopez Doriga.
Moreover, as "chickpeas for pound" There are also university and the Rector of the UNAM, Dr. José Narro who had the courage to say to Congress "real progress can not be generated between inequality and exclusion, through ignorance and preventable death. Society can not prosper or live in peace with levels of insecurity that affect us. " He warned that all these problems will be solved if Mexico continues along the same path. "If reforms are not carried out thoroughly, if not put into practice alternative policies, if not imagine and draw a new national project."
Today, however, best remembered for 68 class in power beginning with President Felipe Calderon seeks to curry favor with the youth and pretends that the PAN formed part of that repressive government.
What we are silent not a few of the leaders of 68 is currently the power of enforcement but not the same as Diaz Ordaz in some ways worse because it is refined, subtle works, is legal, constitutional reforms passed by "consensus" stop allowing criminals even social leaders (who are) and has Mexico in the first killing of journalists worldwide.
is the Mexico of what happened to Carmen Aristegui, the television duopoly, the control and administrative repression of dissent teachers' union, the self-censorship as a fee to pay for media dissemination notes to moderate dissidents besides other hardships or risks. For example, nothing would make me wonder that ran from fulfilling my current job - at the direction of Fidel Herrera - a warning that years before I did from the former government secretary Miguel Angel Yunes, "or are you a public servant or she is writing Articles "
why I say to my children and friends that some writers exercise" freedom of the donkey "which is none other than being able to move only to the extent permitted by rope. I wonder how these pseudo political freedoms for was the 68? Is there any difference between the crap that was broadcast on TV in the 60's and the predominant today? When Members and particularly those arising from 68 have echoed the public demand for openness and democratization of all political parties? Are clearly more questions than answers.
Like many, I lived through the repression in all its forms except what happened at the Plaza of Three Cultures under which he was imprisoned in Lecumberri prison two weeks before or since 18 September when 10,000 soldiers and dozens of tanks took the campus, an action that I can remember in detail. I do not like but I can also remember the two years 4 months I spent in the bay of punishment and beating Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered to give us in prison to break the hunger strike. To me and others we had double repression since I was equally critical of the government and the dogmatism and authoritarianism of the left which forced me to "move house" and take refuge in among the common prisoners I met the other violence, ancestral, molting, "justice" of the poor and privileges of a General Mariles and other white collar. Fortunately also unreserved solidarity and regardless of ideology.
However, the memory of these and many other facts, pending recount, repeat, only narrative, not analysis and less assimilation. Remember it makes sense if it leads to reflection, criticism and self-criticism and of this, a consistent action under new perspectives. Unfinished business, like many other political thinking is proposing socialism as if nothing had happened or China, Germany or the former USSR, among other countries. That
Marco Figueroa said in its program of a meeting with Culture. Unfortunately
violence reached on October 2 in those days caused massive trauma which immediately underwent a combined strategy of power that repression, persecution, threats and the mass distribution of tons of marijuana in schools. Power intelligence knew that the spirits adormecería, very few to escape the effects of this strategy. Come on June 10 and then "democratic opening" of former President Luis Echeverria, the co-optation, electoral reform, incorporating the power of the opposition and the proliferation of utilitarian readings of 68 pending a critical and capable of boosting self a democratic culture in society.
nation that ignores its past, suffers from identity problems, does not achieve the unity of the diverse, not progress in defining its historic project and less on the agreements actually required to do so, their forces remain trapped in the immediate struggle for power either a seat or resources in the budget Expenditures of the Federation. These forces also found many of the leaders of the 68. They and everyone involved still owe future generations a satisfactory answer from what we have done in 4 decades in power that we questioned because we have not even managed to presidents and governors of the republic fully submit their actions to the law. Much less than a citizen can sue as in the United States.
Since my phone yesterday told this to a friend who visited me in prison and is now very close to Lopez Obrador. In my words, she replied, "do not take into account everything done by leftist governments." I did not know what he meant but rebuked him: only the blind and stubborn dare to deny the existence of the political power represented by the former head of DDF, AMLO but .... Is it a question of quantity of works or actions that distinguish them from each other? Almost all intelligent ruler seeks to do more to stay in power or heirs, I answered, matter not only rowing but knowing where it leads or claim to bring the boat auction. The exlìderes of 68
not have an answer to the question "Where are the values \u200b\u200bof democratic culture, libertarian ideals and the new man of Che Guevara that advocate for the streets and plazas of Mexico? Do not tell me is that the 2.0147 billion spent in 2009 alone the party-or the "Televisa law" that the House approved! Where is the struggle for social justice and better wages? Where respect for human rights? Did we pass in youth or in the neighboring country of 50 million poor captives electioneering social programs?
My children born in this century, when they hear that live in the most corrupt country in the world with the highest rate of femicide in the world, where union rights are violated, which has concertacesiòn has returned and that public officials are traded , the public accounts "ironed", that transparency is a slogan and that crime have organized lobbyists in Congress, allies within the institutional power and factual and that the voter turnout creates minority governments ... .. They know my kids tired of all this and hear my dad tell me stories why did the fucking 68? Is this the country they fought you and those who are now MPs and senators salary of almost 200 thousand dollars a month? .... I'm dumb and makes me a lump in my throat and I think in The Wretched of the Earth Franz Fanon, reading from yesterday and today because the man is not what he thinks but what he does and it is clear that the desire for a liberated colonized is to move to occupy the chair of the colonizer.
"We are in times of war, unless we change this country is going to destroy us, we will destroy. We will destroy the dreams, the future and ourselves .... "Said Paco Ignacio Taibo II in his recent visit to Xalapa. (Continued) comments are welcome: http://despertartemprano.blogspot.com/Email: romeo-
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