Lyambiko, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

After every New Year arrives the day when you come back to "reality". When you open and skim through the links and virtual pages of the newspapers online just to find out (like Mafalda), nothing has changed, even worse, things may have escalated to a different dimension while you were not watching for the world's sake.

Ayotzinapa. We're not moving our finger from the Mexican map. I think everyone knows what's at stake here. 

Last of the theories establishes the students may have been incinerated in either a private or the Army's crematoriums. According to Jorge Montemayor Aldrete:

"If our theory is correct, the Constitution will need to be applied; the guilty will have to be judged and the law applied. This is a heinous crime and the situation is so delicate that if we let this pass us by we could easily fall under a neofascist State. All the healthy forces of the Army, Naval, and society, we have to demand that these members of the armed forces along the people from the federal government, who plotted this State crime, must be set aside and judged. I will get to the last consequences of this. They might kill me, but I'm not scared."

"Beware! Irresponsible people at Work"

Some hunger strikes have also flourished but analysts go back to the same issue, civil society must impose it's agenda unto the government. More than a hundred days have gone by and we still have no answers: scientific, verifiable ones. Political agenda since 1968 has always been: Let silence rule, wear the idea out and if it's still there making a hole under the rug, (sigh) then let's simulate some kind of transitional justice.

Well executed, transitional justice could be "the cornerstone of reconstruction". It's result would be: exerting a right to truth. It would become a way to recover truth telling and reconciliation towards our own nation.

"How does one stick this [bandaid] on the soul?"

If that happened, maybe this "reparative justice" could set a parameter of what can we accomplish against impunity. But I'm moving forward (and daydreaming?) in time. What's in the table at the beginning of Enrique Peña Nieto's agenda in 2015 is called Conflict of Interest. This topic would mean to investigate thoroughly The Casa Blanca of Las Lomas, Videgaray's Malinalco House, Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa and address these patterns of impunity, torture and missing people to it's own people.

José Miguel Vivanco, representative of Human Rights Watch, America's Division, exposed to Obama in a letter:

"In anticipation to the meeting your excellency will have with Mexico's President, Enrique Peña Nieto, I'm writing to let you know about the deep worries, HRW has, in respect with the human rights crisis that Mexico's going through, a crisis that received international attention in the last few months due to two atrocities [Tlatlaya and Ayotzinapa], the gravest we have seen after many years in Mexico that involve members of the public security forces." [source]

In the meantime, we're still making noise. Manivela Editions has been creating artist ePubs in which some of us were invited to participate. "I Protest with my Work" is the name of this compilation and is now, in the last stages of publication. To them, this project was "fuelled by the desire, December and January festivities would not diminish the reflective spirit" we had accumulated these past months.

I will always be a dreamer. And while I'm not a 6 year-old cartoon character as Mafalda, I would still like for things to be different, specially when all systems have seemed to fail upon us. Perpetuation seems like the real sickness, commodity is another. In a very Deleuzian and Guattariesque fashion I will end this post by translating Mafalda's words: "Orchestras! If instead of troops the world was full of orchestras, that would be wonderful!"