Narco-violence lays bare all the shortcomings of the Mexican state, despite the extraordinary efforts that are being made to combat organized crime. Therefore, the solution doesn't lie in reacting like an overwhelmed husband whose wife objects that the money isn't enough for the basic needs, to which he responds, angry, that he works from sunset to sundown.* In effect, the Mexican government is doing everything it can, and despite that, the drug violence doesn't decline. To deny this reality is to block out the sun with your finger.** And given that, unloading on the United States the frustration that provokes the persistence of drug trafficking doesn't accomplish a thing.*Wonderful characterization.In fact, inside the American government there are sectors more worried about helping Calderón's government than criticizing it. This explains the visit of the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, at the end of the month. The Mexican government shouldn't get this wrong. The real enemy isn't in the White House: it's here, in Mexico. It's the drug traffickers, which corrupt and corner the state and that now is making us fight with with an ally in this war. With the only one we have left.
**In case this doesn't make sense, this is a common Mexican expression that means to ignore reality.
2 comments:
That was indeed an awesome metaphor. It's even better if you summon the mental image of a blinged-out narcomenudista being the hard worker with the unhappy wife.
I was thinking of more of a Carroll O'Connor All in the Family type, but yeah that works too.
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