Cambios críticos en el mundo

Ver a la política Mexicana desde fuera es, además de interesante, hasta sierto modo relajante. Las consecuencias y los resultados del proceso político mexicano afectan en menor grado cuando uno vive en el exterior. En todo caso cuando las consecuencias lo afectan a uno, estas son normalmente de manera secundaria y como quien dice de rebote! Desde luego que muchos mexicanos en el extranjero -sobre todo los que viven en los EEUU- tienen familiares en Mexico por los que es que se tiene el interés. Algunos tambien tienen interés por razones puramente académicas. Es posible que la misma situacion se de con los mexicanos en Mexico interesados por la política de los EEUU. Sin embargo tanto la tecnología como la economía han hecho que acontesimientos en paices lejanos y hasta ahora separados tengan una relevancia de importancia incalculable. Más aún el "terreno" se ha emparejado, de acuerdo a Tom Friedman en su libro "La Tierra es Plana" propone que los EEUU ya no tendrá la ejemonía dominante en la medida que el uso de la tecnología se universalize. Paices como China y la India se han convertido en competidores de primer mundo, con una población de miles de millones. La salida para todos es la educación.

Vacation is over

Reproduction of an open letter printed in the New York Times:
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

Mexicanizacion de los USA

La Mexicanización de los Estados Unidos tiene ángulos diferentes a la Colombianización de México aunque también tiene fuertes similitudes. Las diferencias se basan en la cultura y ética protestante versus la cultura católica. El término colombianización de México fue utilizado principalmente para indicar la infiltración del narco-tráfico en las alts esferas del gobierno. De tal manera que el gobierno se convirtió en partícipe de los negocios, mecanismos, y familias de los narcos. En los Estados Unidos esto ha sucedido en menor escala. Cuando menos en lo familiar no existen fuertes vínculos entre narcos y gobernantes aunque de manera esporádica alguno pueda ser enumerado.
La principal característica de la mexicanización de los Estados Unidos radica en el uso de la información. Una prensa en general controlada por la Casa Blanca y las corporaciones transnacionales solo presenta el lado distorcionado de la realidad política, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Esa es la razón principal por la que estos gobiernos se han mantenido en el poder y de manera similar a lo ocurrido en Mexico por tantos años el fraude electoral es cosa que cada dia se hace mas común.
Todo indica que antes de un despertar de esta pesadilla, la humanidad tendrá que pasar por un periodo de obscurantismo. Solo espero que por los avances tecnológicos de hoy en dia, este periodo de la “novo-edad media” sea breve!

Welcome to Quetzalcoatl USA

Here is where we'll talk about Mexico's politics and how it is influenced by and influencing US politics. We'll try to analyze the US-Mexico relationship based on historical, social, religious, and economic theories and philosophies. We'll see this relationship through the lens of pure subjectivity, and factual corroboration. This corroboration will be done in the future as our prediction will come true.
One day, I'll tell you why I chose the name Quetzalcoatl for this blog. First I have to think why, as I don't know yet!
It has something to do with Quetzalcoatl being the Aztecs' "sun god" and as the sun I intent to bring some light into the discussion. Some tmes I'll be writting in English some times in Spannish- sometimes in German, French, Japanese, as soon as I learn how. Because so far I don't know how.