Mexico: A Sick Country "Where Thugs Become Prince"

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 Below is written by Bishop Vera of Saltillo, Coahuila.  Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, he is a  champion of freedom and rights of all people, migrants, gays, the disappeared the wrongfully convicted, he has never been shy about his convictions even when bucking the Vatican......Paz, Chivis

 “México, a country where thugs become prince”

by Bishop Raúl Vera

 

They think they can do it all.

Since they are accustomed to mock us, nothing can stop them.

 

They know us as torpid.

Hypnotized by television, urged only for more goals and more of the circus

 

Capable of tolerating, as we have done it for decades, one insult after another

We have never been respected

 

Fear; they haven’t feared us for a long time

Outbreaks of rebellion choke them in blood or let them, simply die from starvation letting the water of the masses, in which this movements are moved, dry by itself.

For that they have an army of propagandist and charlatans

With billions of pesos of the treasury,  instead of using it to solve problems, they use it to numb us.

 

We have been massacred, dismissed, lied to and they still have the power without paying for  their crimes.

Smiling for photos

 

Giving  empty speeches

Saying, without shame, the biggest lies in front of the camera of an indulgent television network which took advantage of and now they serve.

 

They know that the lie does not give us indigestion

That we swallow every one of them

 

That we commune with millstones

That we are credulous and we are bored by the people that only “complain”

 

They count on us being sick, that the country is sick

They think we are incapable of generating the antibodies necessary to resist the abuses of power: punctual memory, dignity, firmness, courage, rebellion, capability and decision to fight for our rights, sense of what “justice” means.

 

They know that we are used to corruption

Because we have been suffering it for so many years, we now think of it as having less value without connecting it with betrayal and the death it generates.

Because corruption kills

And it kills because it takes the bread from the poor

Medicine from the ill,

Education from the children,

Dignity from the homes of families,

And opportunities and jobs from the young.

Corruption kills because it puts weapons and ammunition  in hands of the criminals

And makes the police close their eyes

Makes the army miss hit after hit, or worst, inflict on innocents

Judges absolving criminals and condemning innocents

It is clear to them that, for the vast majority, venal politicians are a minor evilness, necessary characters, indispensable for the national scenery.

We think they are part of the folklore and that their crimes do not provoke us nothing else that accesses of momentary rage.

Easily controlled

Those that are easy to forget and do not leave a mark

The name of our illness is conformity, even worst, resignation.

That’s why the steal and steal and steal

Those that have betrayed the system, as Elba Esther,  those who have lost control of their respective fief, as Granier or the scapegoats of each administration as La Quina, Villanueva or Raúl Salinas de Gortari .

 

Just as it happened with the last mentioned, it is said that all, the traitors of the system, the incompetent, the useful fools, by time passing and as Raúl Salinas, will be exonerated, get back “their” properties; meaning the loot, product of their theft.

 

And if by some case, some remain in jail, they know that their relatives, the accomplices, the court that accompanied them during the looting on their time of glory, would not be touched at all and their fortune will keep producing dividends.

The vast majority, however, feels and knows they will be unpunished.

Justice will never catch them because justice, who is also sick, suffers of short-sightedness.

Just distinguished, just benefit those who have power and money.

Dozens or hundreds of thousands of innocents languish in jail

While those like Montiel, Marín, Moreira, Yarrington, Ruiz, Cavazos, Vicente Fox, García Luna, and many others are and will be free.

Unpunished, rich and influential

The system knows that, for many in this sick country, the enrichment of a ruler is never inexplicable and is almost never convicted.

They know that cancer has expanded, has formed metastasis.

Might it be that they are right?

Might it be that we are capable of demonstrating that we are alive, that we are tired of their crimes?

We are sick, it is true and it is so that they are still there, but we are not dead, not yet.

We have to initiate arrests that make us heal.

And we have to change the system.

Note from Chivis: Posting  this is difficult, it was sent to me by a reader and I admit that tears flowed when I read it.  But it is México's  truth.  We can't hide from it, if change is to come.  The evil of Mexico is not the narcos, quite simply they are its byproduct of evil.  Narcos are opportunists, Each and every level of compromise and ill goes back to corruption.  But corruption is promoted and developed by humans, and therein lies the greatest ill of México; apathy.  

It is what I have learned working in México for a decade.  The realization was stunning, almost incomprehensible that a culture and nation of good, honest, caring people are numbed to the evil, they accept the evil as status quo, even in some ways participate. They are concerned for the 'mine', not 'theirs',  they await Superman, instead of leaning on the man in the mirror. 

That is how the malevolent 1%, can entrap the 99%.

It is why I say Michoacana are the bravest people of México, it is because they are willing to die fighting for a better life for everyone.  My heroes. 

To "Vicky" Gracias Amiga
Translated by Perla