In Mexico, power has rarely been in the hands of those who should. And certainly not the case today
Farewell to Don Genaro Gongora Pimentel. Their presence in the SCJN was an exception that proves the rule. Approach
Emir Sader, secretary general of the Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO), gave an interview in Spain, where he summarized the policy of Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who, despite the global economic crisis, managed to reduce inequality and strengthening social national identity because "[a] ument microcredit, kept wages above inflation, promoted formal employment, diversified international trade and reinforced the interregional." Mexico, Sader said he followed a road and "in my opinion, has committed suicide."
The Mexican route to suicide, according to Sadr, began with a free trade agreement that led to a extreme dependence on U.S. trade in your league over the International Monetary Fund (institution to which Brazil is not only borrows pays), the "serious" corruption and, finally, a climate of extreme violence (International Public, 13 November).
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assisted suicide are people and countries that, at certain moments, appear to commit suicide. The most dramatic modern example is Germany. At the end of a brutal world war waged by nationalist politics and aggressive in the extreme, the German people obeyed the irrational order of their Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, to resist the enemy, although there was no hope of success. Examination of the causes that led the Germans to pursue this dead end really shows that countries do not commit suicide, but that "suicide" a crazy or irresponsible leaderships or extremely stupid or selfish or corrupt or all of these together . They are the leaders who have a society bound by its institutional structure to a disaster situation, and in the specific case of Mexico, the loss of historical time, opportunities and collective energy.
The disaster in a nutshell
Resistance to change in depth when there was still time, back in 1960-just when the dominant political and economic models began to show its limitations, and the mediocrity of leadership made under Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo authoritarianism stubbornly dysfunctional practices until the balance of payments and external debt amount melted down the country. Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas substantially changed the economic model but not political. Extreme neoliberalism embraced and made to pay the cost of changing the working classes, to small and medium industries and the middle class. That neoliberalism was introduced without its counterpart: the real competition (and fair) in political or economic. The result was the illusion to suppose that the neoliberal and authoritarian Mexico and had entered the first world.
In 2000, the PRI was forced to drop the presidency, but remained in control of most states and municipalities. Driving the process was taken over by a PAN he shared with the PRI's neoliberal vision of the economy and he had already learned to negotiate since 1989. The PAN took a blink of eyes to get accustomed to power, but neither wanted nor knew how to use its initial legitimacy to advance this fundamental change that was committed as a champion of democracy. He feared that the left could move the enjoyment of power, his honors and income and claiming the existence of "a danger to Mexico" pact with the PRI-negotiated with the past, and reaffirmed the failed course for which he was the country.
faded So assuming historical change nine years ago. Today, and according to surveys like the one just to lift the CIDE (La Jornada, 16 November), the 2000 does not seem to be anything other than the beginning of a simple two six-year interlude in which the PAN lost its innocence and the PRI was recycled to try to return on track with a touch of legitimacy "democratic" she needed to take hold better in their "second time", which, if we do nothing, you can start in 2012.
indicator 'Forbes' magazine U.S.
periodically select the world's richest people has just opened another list: of the 67 most powerful people in the world, based on four indicators: the number of persons for influencing their ability to project power beyond its immediate scope their access to resources and the intensity with which they exercise that power (Reforma, 12 November). Well, on that list are present a couple of Mexicans who were listed among the wealthiest in the world: Carlos Slim (sixth place) and the drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias "El Chapo" (in the cuarentaiunavo place.)
Forbes The distinction awarded to the Mexican couple says a lot about both but says much more about the nature of society and political system on which Slim and Guzman Loera have assembled an impressive fortune and power. And this is more evident when comparing the other names on the list. The first three are political superpowers: Barack Obama, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin, the fourth, a technocrat, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve power, the United States, only two other figures who share the fifth place are entrepreneurs Sergey Brin and Larry Page, makers of the powerful Google search engine.
Forbes does not consider any powerful Mexican politician and that is absolutely right. Influential Mexicans are really only two businesses: one dominates in the legal economy and the other illegal. The remarkable thing is that in Mexico the political power and not a source of great power in the sense Forbes but an anemic economy, which for 27 years does not raise his head, has served to raise wealth and power as the world Slim concentrating. For Forbes's explanation is that Slim dominates 90 percent of the fixed and mobile telephony in Mexico. This low concentration of competitive telecommunications market in Mexico has its origin in a more political than economic: the terms in which Carlos Salinas privatized Telefonos de Mexico in favor of Slim, and that this base has been able to penetrate successfully in other economic areas and in other countries. Anyway, there are few people today associate the lack of dynamism of the Mexican economy to the presence of monopolistic forces such as Slim. Here we have an explanatory element of "suicide" Sader speaking Mexican.
violence of organized crime and the state is another feature that the secretary of Clacso associated with Mexican failure. And that's where it appears Joaquin Guzman Loera. For El Chapo, Mexico's economy is a secondary factor, as its major market is north of Rio Bravo, fueled by an economy capable of sustaining without any problems prohibited substance in an amount at prices retail, it was estimated earlier this century in 60 billion dollars (The Economist, July 28, 2001). The power base of the Sinaloa drug lord is not a distortion of the Mexican economic system but of the justice system, especially its law enforcement structures and security agencies, but not just there, for the unwillingness of the authorities to attack circuits of drug money is also part of the problem. The root of the power of El Chapo is the enormous corruption of the government of Mexico. Other Indicator
One of the most notorious members of the current political elite, the lawyer and former presidential candidate of PAN, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, has just destroyed part of a Nogalera with copies of more than 100 years old, owned by a poor family in the town of Apaseo el Alto, Guanajuato, to move without permission from the appropriate authority, the trees to hacienda "La Barranca" to make the environment more pleasant in that his farm of 480 acres with a house of 21 bedrooms, El Universal, 13 and 14 November). In contrast, we have Jesus Leon Santos, an indigenous farmer in the Mixteca Alta which for years has organized his countrymen to rescue traditional techniques and through tequio the ecology of the area planted 4 million trees and therefore, won the prestigious Goldman Prize 2008, but no internal recognition ( www.goldmanprize.org ). Conclusion
not turning back: the "suicide" of Mexico is closely related to real power structures, which are not even remotely the interests of the majority, the interests of the nation.
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