Comments on: Grenades During El Grito

By: Tracy Rosen

Tracy Rosen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:09:50 +0000

A recipe for gov’t evasion, no?

Let’s see… bombs go off, fingers are pointed at socially acceptable, stereotyped ‘bad guys’ and and the lens swings away from whatever the heck the gov’t is doing, all the while killing people who have nothing to do with any of it.

hmmm…where have I seen that story play out before?

By: Wrong guys « The Mex Files

Wrong guys « The Mex Files — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:06:47 +0000

[...] Familia) allied with the Zetas (who normally operate elsewhere). All a little too convenient. Nezua suspect the CiA… which is not off the wall at [...]

By: sweetleaf

sweetleaf — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:12:10 +0000

EXACTLY, EXACTLY, EXACTLY, AND EXACTLY…PASS IT ON!

By: That pinche gringo SoB

That pinche gringo SoB — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:17:05 +0000

No arguements here, but overlooked is that Leonel Godoy, and the Michoacan administration is overwhelmingly PRD. There’s a suspicion that the grenade attacks might have been from far-rightist groups — or involving any one of the several different underground political groups in Michoacan… or gangsters employed by any number of people.

Also unreported was the very short Calderon grito. AMLO had given his counter-grito a few hours earlier and the crowd stuck around to dis Don Felipe.

I’m not naive about the gangsters… a police comandante was blown away at my neighborhood C-store, and a couple of headless gang-bangers showed up abandoned behind the supermarket down the street… but that doesn’t mean we’re willing to give in to state control. Better inefficient cops and bumbling detectives than armed soldiers and state surveillence.

While you might not see it in the media NOB, there is significant opposition to the idea of Mexicans fighting the U.S. “war on drugs/terror/… others” especially when the U.S. has been unwilling — or unable — to do a damn thing about the gun running and money laundering that overwhelms our all too imperfect police.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:50:24 +0000

Absolutely. The militarization of society has been ongoing for a long time, but now it is out in the open in blatant ways, and yet many people are oblivious.

By: sir jorge orduna

sir jorge orduna — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:31:35 +0000

Excellent post, and dead on accurate. What makes me sick is how the headlines today in the only two newspapers in town were about Washington Mutual in huge bold letters, and nothing about the escalating violence in my place of birth. It saddens me how callous the U.S is, and how much the Latino voice is drowned out by things like an SNL skit.