Mexico Navy yesterday gunned down a notorious drug dealer Mexican called El Jefe de Jefes. Immediately, the president of Mexico did the best he can do: use television to show off the event. Presented pictures and photographs of bullet-riddled drug and melodramatic excess, put together a picture of narco naked, covered in large denominations bleeding.
To President Calderón (whose electoral victory certainly a wide swath of the population) likes the violence. According to figures presented by the newspaper "El País", war that Calderon has taken against the drug has caused 15 000 deaths in Mexico . The act bloody narco is a metaphor of the Calderon.
is true that a drug dealer is acting with extreme violence. Who beheads his victims. That their violence exceeds the death of their enemies. That is undeniable. But there is little difference between the actions of a drug and acts of Calderón: the government, any government, should try to be fair. Give some balance to the disaster, not behave like what we intended. The image of the body bathed in blood tickets puts the government at the same level of barbarity that drug traffickers and prevents - even more - to have authority in a society that certainly input clean elections with which Calderón took office. Symbolic violence was the most important weapon used to gain Calderón government of Mexico ("Lopez Obrador is a danger to Mexico" ). Now, to stay in power, continue to use it. but coupled with physical violence.
's no pleas have served the public to stop the massacres and the futile war on drugs. After all, Calderon is the same as the murdered capo: a boss of bosses.
The photograph was taken from the article "Under bloody tickets "the daily El Pais ...
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