Breathe
By Stephanie Henaro
I find it somewhat contradictory that in the country of nearshoring there is also talk of citizens having to defend themselves from the narco with shovels, rocks and machetes.
It is as if somehow two opposite timelines were intertwined and the country suddenly had two heads looking in opposite directions that come together at this precise point where time and space intersect, and what I am trying to do is to break with the idea that our past has to determine our future. Because fortunately there is the present.
Mexico was born violent but that does not mean it should die violent and normalize the 95 daily murders, extortion and extortion rackets. Meanwhile, on the other timeline, the country is sold as a paradisiacal destination for nearshoring, with many factories planning to move here. Because -first of all- we share 3,152 kilometers of land border with the United States and the free trade agreements between Mexico, the US and Canada can lighten tariffs.
