Breathe
By Claudia Pérez Atamoros
Notes of a neophyte with memory and opinion.
I live in the land of the blind and the deaf, of the handcuffed, of the impotent, of the indifferent, of the miserable, but also in the land of wonders, where, they say, everything is exaggerated. Nothing is so much. In which some are indignant and vociferous; in which others write, we write... So?
-Vultures, hyenas!
Mexico is a field of bodies that will never bloom... Inert bodies awaiting burial underground; weightless, faceless, nameless corpses that accumulate in the forensic medical services here, there and everywhere. The whole country lives in the midst of fields sown with the lifeless; the entire nation is morbid, a presidentA is not enough, nor are good wishes, nor blind refusals... The loving republic languishes before the lack of acceptance of the horror that corrodes it. Deeds are love, and not good reasons!
-Miserables!
A few and others less, they scratch and scratch, they smell everywhere, they have learned to sniff death in the most primitive way, to find the areas of stench; sometimes still clothed with rotting corpses; some with human remains and others, bone fragments of what once were a woman, a man, a child, a grandfather....
THE DIRTY WAR
-Lie at your leisure!
During three six-year PRI administrations (Díaz Ordaz, Echeverría and López Portillo), that is, from 1964 to 1982, our country suffered an immense wave known as the "dirty war" in which torture, extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances resulted in the murders "of many of the victims of this brutal policy that demonstrate the cruelty and inhumanity with which they were executed. For example, there were frequent practices of mass burial of corpses in clandestine graves, or throwing people alive into the middle of the sea from Army planes. The victims were not only militants of insurgent organizations, but also their social networks and, in the case of the rural guerrillas, entire communities, entire communities".
-It was them, them, not us!
"Beginning in the mid-1990s, the number of forced disappearances increased again in Mexico, especially as a result of the public appearance of armed social movements such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (1994) and the Popular Revolutionary Army (1996). In the year 2000, with the change of governing party, the number of forced disappearances decreased again until 2006, when, in the context of the so-called "war against organized crime" sustained by the Federal Government, the number of forced disappearances increased again in an alarming way".
THE WAR ON DRUGS
-Oh, what a time, Mr. Don Simón!
From 2006 to the present, that is, during the six-year terms of Calderón, Peña Nieto and AMLO, there is no sum that fits. Each one has its own data. Disappearances, accumulated unidentified corpses and illegal burials at ground level; drums used to dissolve bodies, garbage dumps where human remains are burned; and now, in the six-year term of "we all arrived", without arriving at all, nobody, neither them nor us, extermination camps that are not and where they only killed those who did not allow themselves to be trained?
THE WAR OF GRAVES
-It wasn't me, it was Teté....
Avernos varios. Infernal Mexico. So crude, so real. Who does not see it? As long as we fight for labels, for names and not for recognizing that in our country ignominy, the diabolical, the infamous prevail on its soil and under them, dwells the tartarus, the horror of cemeteries full of genocide. 125,303 missing persons. 5,698 clandestine burials. 38,891 unidentified bodies.
-Let's see, let's see... exemplifies. Exaggerated! Mexico is still on the list of the happiest countries.
La Gallera, BCN, El Pozolero, Tijuana Cartel (2009), at least 300 bodies dissolved in acid.
El Huizachal, San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Los Zetas (2011), 72 migrant corpses were discovered and in a nearby location, 193 more.
Durango, Sinaloa Cartel, (2011), 298 people exterminated.
La Barca, Jalisco (2013), CJNG, remains of 75 people were found.
Colinas de Santa Fe, Veracruz, (2016), Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG, 303 human remains were found.
Ejido El Patrocinio, Coahuila, (2016), C. Sinaloa and CJNG, at least 170 people buried there.
Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, (2019), CJNG, the remains of 119 people were located.
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