Mexico After the Flood: Political Failure and Call to Citizen Action John M. Ackerman - La Jornada
go to original October 1, 2013

Federal, state and local governments, as well as the country's principal national television networks, are now seeking to profit politically from the disaster generated by the storms Manuel and Ingrid. They blame the victims for their own misfortune, turn their visits to the affected areas into outrageous media spectacles and position the delivery of provisions and scant funds as tangible evidence of their supposed commitment to the people.

It will be very difficult for anyone to believe in these hypocritic efforts that seek to use the natural disaster to rebuild their wounded legitimacy. Better than the reconstruction of Guerrero, Michoacán, Veracruz and other affected states, it is a golden opportunity to remove the corruption and cynicism of the political class and the powers that be [political, business elites].

... The rains of recent weeks were not, of course, the final flood of which the Bible speaks. But with a determined citizen action this tragedy itself could prove to be the beginning of the end of government irresponsibility and elitist contempt for the Mexican people.

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