| April
3, 2004
¡AY, Ay, ay!
Mejico lindo, what have they done to you?
By Ricardo Castañón/HispanicVista.com
Mexican news media exploit negative
sensational events only. They address the
audience's morbidity; gossip sells ads.
Its sinister message though, only begins
to scratch the surface. They don't talk
about the real drama, the poverty the
people have to muddle in, the lack of
incentives, the desolated fields, the
dried rivers, the polluted streets, lakes
and beaches.
The once glorious colors of the national
flag have been stained with the mud and
blood political corruption and impunity
have splashed on it. With very few
exceptions, most everyone is for grabs!
Those in any kind of a position to make a
difference do not use it to serve, but to
outsmart others and each other; their
middle name should be "Mr. or Mrs.
Longnails."
Hunger, illness and misery are
everywhere. Villages are desolated. In
any reasonably populated towns, the
economic problem triggers crime and
violence; burglaries, pickpockets,
car-theft, rapes and kidnapping;
prostitution and child pornography are a
common occurrence. In the nation's
capital the problem is only worse. For
crying-out-loud! If sitting in your car,
driver or passenger, with the window down
while waiting at a stop-light, kids in
their teens posing as street vendors,
would grab whatever jewelry you may have
at their reach and make a run for it!
That's not the way it used to be! That's
not the way it should be! What are these
Harvard educated politicians doing to the
"Horn of Plenty"? Are they
determined to exhaust it? Their
white-collar robbing and grabbing has no
limit. Their worse sin though, is the
moral, the negative patriotic impact they
are inflicting into the minds of the
people. Whether they know it or ignore
it, the damage is irreversible. Hence the
exodus of most able men to the USA.
The families left behind depend mostly on
the remittances sent by their
breadwinners, and now, the federal
government has placed its greedy eyes on
that income and wants to TAX IT!
...(?)... Please! Clone Benito Juarez!
Again and again!
Still, if I die while away, pretend that
I'm into deep sleep. Ship back my bonny
cadaver wrapped in a bright multi-color sarape,
my face covered with a straw hat, my ears
plugged with cotton balls to stop rumors
from what's going on the surface,
tire-tread-soled huaraches on my
calloused feet, and the whole bundle
dropped into the deepest gorge of the
Copper Canyon.
"De el arbol caído, todos quieren
hacer leña!" (“From the fallen
tree, everyone wants to make firewood.”)
¿Verdad que...Si?
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Ricardo Castañón is a bilingual
essayist contributing weekly columns to
HispanicVista.com (www.hispanicvista.com).
Ricardo has authored an anthology of
motivational essays on Hispanic heritage,
traditions and values entitled "XXI
Century Nova Hispania" Book
information is at www.IkarosPress.com
Ricardo is based in El Paso, TX He can be
reached at Rico@IkarosPress.com
Patrick,
Would you give me a quote to use on the
back flap of my
"Simple Simon's" book?
Please note on the copy I sent to you,
that there are
two unsigned quotes. I'm printing a new
batch and would
love to have your endorsement. You might
not want to
adopt either one of the ones already
there and prefer
one of your own.
In either case, I wish you would do that
for me.
Un fuerte abrazo!
Ricardo...
Ikaros Press, Inc.
R. Castanon, Pres.
10520 Elmridge Ct.
El Paso, TX 79925
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