A Mexican soldier stands
guard as experts investigate the crime scene in Morelia, Michoacan,
where two grenades were hurled into a crowd during Independence Day celebrations, killing eight and wounding hundreds.The Morelia attack is atypical of the drug cartels. Is a rightwing neo-Nazi party being born?
September 17, 2008
By Pedro Echeverria V.
Translated by Scott Campbell
[Spanish original]
1. Members of drug-trafficking cartels have shown (up to today) that they don't kill people by throwing bombs at them, like what happened in Morelia on the night of September 15. These cartels, for all they've done, only kill those who go after them, deceive them, and speak out against them, be they members of the same cartel, police officers, soldiers and their commanders, journalists, and, certainly, they are always ready to put an end to the politicians who order them hunted down. Ostensibly, they kill people by producing and selling them drugs, but according to published accounts, the humble inhabitants begin to care for them because they are the only ones who help, giving them jobs and gifts (Escobar Gaviria, Caro Quintero, etc.). Though the drug-traffickers could have changed their strategy, we should consider this fact, avoiding accepted wisdom and propaganda.
2. On the other side, a leftist guerilla organization always fights for the exploited, poor and oppressed. That's what it's born to do. Genaro Vazquez, Lucio Cabanas, the EZLN, the EPR, etc., never acted against the people, but very much to the contrary, arose from the people to defend their rights. Some have attacked banks, have kidnapped business and land owners, to obtain money for their struggles, but they've never gone against their own ideology which is to fight for the indigenous, the peasants, the workers. When they carry out propagandistic actions, placing bombs, they've always sought to ensure that no one dies. This has become more than clear through the experiences in Mexico and the world. No leftist organization would be able to keep their name if it didn't defend the interests of those from below.
3. On the contrary, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, Videla, Somoza, representing the economic and political interests of businessmen, having the conception of inferior and superior races, considering that the poor should only produce because they are incapable of governing, always showed disdain for the people. Do you happen to remember that all of these disastrous rightwing military dictators immediately massacred the people when they were protesting against their miserable living conditions? Who killed the student masses on October 2, 1968 and June 10, 1971? To throw a bomb into a poor and miserable crowd can only be an action of those who are against the crowd, of those they consider incapable of doing anything that isn't working, to produce wealth for the exploiters.
4. The question then should be: Is a rightwing Nazi party being born, like the various ones in Europe and the U.S., to persecute and kill the people and the forces associated with them? How many businessmen and powerful priests would support with great determination an extremely radicalized Yunque/PAN party?* People such as the "friends of Fox," Velasco Arza (adviser to Fox), Salinas Price and his son Salinas Pliego (owner of TV Azteca), Servidje (owner of Nestle), Azcarraga (owner of Televisa) and a thousand other businessmen most certainly would be very pleased at the appearance of armed, anti-communist commandos, such as those that have appeared in Germany, Italy, Spain, or the U.S. Their objective is to stop the struggles of the people and to assassinate those political activists who assist in the strikes, the taking of lands, and the takeovers of unoccupied homes.
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