In a democracy, citizens can call to their leaders accountable, calling recent examples of reflection in Mexico
An example of accountability
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Our democracy requires, among other things, look good on how mature democracies and draw lessons for our own. What is happening in Britain provides us with a subject of discussion in Mexico to discuss political reforms necessary to revive a system that is taking on water.
this side of the Atlantic, it does draw attention to what happened to Tony Blair in London on Friday: former British prime minister had to respond in public and before television cameras to question of a commission investigating the legality of the order he gave his army in 2003 to accompany the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Blair was subjected to a polite but stern six-hour interrogation by the commission headed by Sir John Chilcot, a high-retired public servant who is entrusted to find out if the invasion of Iraq on behalf of Her Majesty's Government , one of whose purposes was the death of British and many Iraqis, was done properly and in accordance with the laws of the kingdom. And, as we know, the original reason for attacking Iraq in 2003 was soon fully checked false: the government in Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction that the British intelligence services said they had and could use 45 minutes after being given the order to do so or had ties to Al Qaeda terrorists, as also said.
Former British prime minister defended himself well against his inquisitors, but regardless of the conclusion of the commission and how Blair is facing history, among the crowd were relatives of the 179 British soldiers dead and demanding the political an apology for having led the country into a misguided war, which failed to apologize, the event was a example of how to run a democracy that can demand accountability from their rulers.
first thing pointed questioning about the responsibility of former British prime minister is the absence of a similar process in the United States. Clearly, George W. Bush and some of his colleagues should be subjected to a trial of responsibility for what happened in Iraq, because they were the instigators of an invasion that, according to the most conservative estimates, killed 100 thousand Iraqis.
But let's see the speck in your neighbor's eye and look at the massive beams in terms of accountability we have in Mexico. In our anemic political system will strengthen the subject a severe interrogation, or rather, a trial to former and current living presidents to convince the public that actually already exceeded a central feature of the old regime: impunity. Echeverría
Upon learning "Corpus Thursday of 1971 the deadly aggression carried out by a paramilitary group organized by the Federal District government, the" hawks "- against a peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City a falsely indignant President Luis Echeverria said it would investigate and punish the guilty. Not so, the only capital regent was forced to resign but years later received the governor of Nuevo León. Later, in 1998, when the PRI was on the verge of losing its role as state party, a call 68 Commission, Congress, made the ridiculous to go home to face Echeverria its responsibility in the massacres of 1968 1971. Then in 2006, and an allegedly "new regime", was ordered Echeverria's house arrest but after a pathetic imitation of trial in 2009, ordered his acquittal on charges of genocide. Although no doubt that the ultimate responsibility for the crimes of 68 and 71 falls in the former presidents of the time, today we still do not know what was the "reason of state" by who ordered the murder of the young, we do not know how many victims there were or exactly who was involved or under what circumstances played their roles. De la Madrid
Not long ago, Miguel de la Madrid agreed to the journalist Carmen Aristegui, who is radically wrong in leaving as his successor Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who is now the center of a web of corruption scandals during his administration . However, De la Madrid refused any operation of election fraud allegedly Salinas won with 51 percent of the vote in July 1988. And even though that election ballots and are ashes, it would not hurt an investigation clarify what really happened at the ballot box 22 years ago. Salinas
With regard to Carlos Salinas, there is plenty of material for commissions. Suppose that secret should not find out what and how he spent the "secret", but would be very revealing and useful to know the process and conditions that were privatized at the time important public-phone companies, banks, television, etc. " , currently the source of large private fortunes. The killings of hundreds of PRD could be the subject of another investigation, and never fully explained the executions of members of EZLN Ocosingo market, Luis Donaldo Colosio and Francisco Ruiz Massieu, all in 1994. Zedillo
The so-called "December mistake" of 1994, which led to the penultimate major economic crisis in Mexico and, subsequently, was the reason that brought Ernesto Zedillo to design the infamous Fobaproa-purchase portfolio overdue private bank notes state, "it must be unraveled. Fobaproa it led to internal public debt grew four times in just three years, but also an untold number of bank loans fraudulently end as part of that debt. The fact that a Mexicanized banking system from the government of Venustiano Carranza gradually evolved into one dominated by foreign banks, should also be the subject of an investigation process. And finally there is the mass murder of indigenous people in Chiapas in Acteal, in which case the networks of "justice" only pure small fish caught and now says they were not guilty. The so-called Pemexgate "-the illegal transfer of thousand 100 million dollars from Pemex to the oil union and thence to the PRI in 2000 - led to a fine of one billion pesos for the PRI but ultimately responsible for the operation never had to respond before a judge. All this gives food for several commissions "to the Blair ".
Fox
Despite IFE research the first government of the" new regime "-that so attached to the bill that won the impeachment of the head of city government not to stop in time to open a street- there is still much we do not know about the origin and use of monies from the Friends of Fox ". Another commission could also investigate what TEPJF not studied: how it was and what effect did the intervention of Fox or the Business Coordinating Council in the 2006 election. The federal government's role in the defense of the governor of Oaxaca and the repression of APPO also deserve to be the subject of an investigation.
Calderón
this administration has not yet concluded, but you might be thinking to investigate the reasons and results of this "war" for three years against drug trafficking, which has already caused 16 000 deaths and no end in sight. A thread of research could be suggested in the article by Jorge Torres and Ignacio Alvarado (El Universal, 26 January), whereby the inspiration of the "war" was not only Mexican American: a proposal for officials the DEA, Karen Tandy and David Gaddis, Eduardo Medina Mora and Genaro Garcia Luna in October 2006, and then introduced himself as Mexican decision. As in the case of Blair, this "war" fits well with the American interest, but is also of Mexican? This should be out. Conclusion
The UK is one of the most consolidated democracies and may be luxuries that we can only imagine, but the former president Fujimori and was tried in Peru and former President Alfonso Portillo has been presented before a court in Guatemala. That in Mexico will deepen democracy, should also have the ability to call to account civilly our rulers. Are we there yet?
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