Poniatowska: The Education Conflict in Mexico is a Racism Problem

[This voice (Osorio Chong) reminds us about Gustavo Díaz Ordaz back in the 68, advising students to remove blockages at crossroads, about a dialogue that never took place, the murders, the injustice] This is a reference around chaos that keeps getting worse, more terrible and towards an abyss. We are looking at what just happened in Oaxaca, we saw what happened at Ayotzinapa, in Tlatlaya too. Everything is going wrong. "Where's the light? Where's the road Elena [Poniatowska]?" 

"What is happening is heartbreaking for everyone, because politics is all about alliances, is dialogue, is conciliation, and its seems we no longer know how to do that, it seems that, there is no chance".

Beisdes, "I feel an immense gratitude towards a teacher, for anyone who teaches you something. Anything, teaching is something pretty sacred".

Also, "it's a racism problem. Mexico is a racist country towards itself, pretty surprising but it is. A problem about poverty, around schools, about corruption, government, of successive governments that haven't [or didn't want I might add] given any tools for education".

The problem is "what are we going to do? what are we going to do with ourselves?... Finally in Mexico the word patria (homeland) is getting lost, everything is going to hell, or what will happen?".

"Because the demonisation of the teachers is also the demonisation of all of us". [...]

"Mexico is becoming a selfish country, with an abyss between one social class and the the other, with an abyss with all kinds of problems, with an abyss between government and the mexicans ruled by the president. There is no connection, none whatsoever". [source]