IN Mexico, our Monuments shows government' corruption

Shut the fuck up, you plucked feathers' chicken, so your hangmen can throw your corn!

¡Silencio pollos pelones, que ya les van a echar su maiz!

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Increases in transportation and land taxes ( More than 85% in just one year):


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while "our savious" travel in Helicopters,@EPN like Zeus:

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....we humble citizens, stay without movement in traffic jams, risking to be assaulted in this insecure Mexico City
 
Adding Absurdity to Tragedy
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By CARLOS PUIG
MEXICO CITY — It’s one of the trendiest, most expensive and nicest pieces of land around. It’s in Polanco, the city’s most expensive neighborhood, and on a corner of Paseo de la Reforma, the capital’s most important avenue. Less than two kilometers away from the president’s residence and just five blocks from Masaryk Street, our own Park Avenue. It occupies 1,500 square meters of Chapultepec, the park in the middle of Mexico City.
And it is this piece of prime real estate that last year, under heavy pressure from human rights organizations, the government designated for a memorial to honor the victims of drug-related violence.
More than 60,000 Mexicans have died since 2006, when our own version of the “war on drugs” was declared. The army was sent into the streets to fight traffickers, and violence erupted in dozens of cities around Mexico. Last month, Human Rights Watch documented 149 forced disappearances at the hands of the army and the police — a small sample, the organization said.
The new Mexican government declared last week that the administration of former President Felipe Calderón had put together a list reporting more than 26,000 disappearances over the last six years. In 2010 Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican city that borders El Paso, Texas, one of the most secure cities in the United States, had homicide rates that competed with those of the most violent region in Afghanistan. The most conservative count of homicides related to Mexico’s war on drugs puts the death toll at around 70,000 in six years.

During the last year of his six-year term, Calderón accepted a proposal put forth by a coalition of civil society organizations to build a memorial to the victims of the violence. The country’s biggest architects’ association organized a contest and convened a panel of judges that included family members of victims. The money earmarked for the memorial’s construction, $3 million, came from assets seized from organized crime.
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Carlos Puig​
The memorial in Polanco, Mexico City.
The site was completed in November, and last week I visited it with the three architects who designed it. That required lifting a makeshift wall of white plastic sheeting and barbed wire and slipping underneath it. A couple of security officers asked who we were and what we were doing there.
Putrid water stagnated in a fountain. The grass was turning yellow. Weeds were growing out of control. Still, the space was solemn, a site of pain and reflection: a forest of 70 large metal walls rose like trees, ready to shelter whoever walked among them.
Yet nobody can experience it. The memorial has yet to be open to the public.
When the site was completed, just days before the end of Calderón’s term, he refused to inaugurate it. The new administration has been ignoring the place. And so the nongovernmental organizations that just one year ago were clamoring for the memorial’s construction are now debating if it is worthy of the victims.
One group, led by Javier Sicilia, a poet whose son was kidnapped and killed by criminals protected by the local police, has said the site is “a monument, not a memorial.” For him, a memorial must be part of a broader process of reconciliation, and that hasn’t begun. “We do not know the exact number of dead, what happened to them or their names.”
And so this site sits, new but already abandoned, surrounded by a white tarp and barbed wire. Finished but closed. With dead grass and foul water. In the most valued piece of land of the country. Adding absurdity to tragedy.
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Carlos Puig is a columnist for the Mexican newspaper Milenio and the anchor of the television show En 15.
 
El histérico alarde por “el movi/MIENTO” en #Mexico es el común denominador de todos los partidos políticos en México

The hysterical boasting about “movement,” is the common denominator for all political parties in #Mexico



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In #Mexico we say it outloud! In our country there are millions starving to death!

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@Un_Tal_Cioran: revolutions ( in plural and with small case letters) are "the sublime" of bad literature
 
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