Breathe
By Linda Atach Zaga.
AMLO left us with a Mexico busy with everything... except for its own good.
With the question, " Which option do you think is better for the country?", instead of concentrating on stopping evil and impunity, the president distracted us with the debate of the Texcoco airport cancellation, the revocation of the mandate, the suspension of the Constellation Brands plant and 4000 jobs lost, in addition to the debated and much criticized Judicial Reform implemented by his successor.
If today the same question were repeated and Mexicans could express what is best for our country, there would not be a single one who would fail to answer that the only thing this land needs is security, to know the whereabouts of its disappeared and whether they are alive or dead, to continue their search or mourn them with dignity.
The discovery of the crematoriums located on a ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, surpasses all understanding of the disaster generated by this machinery of evil. The farewell letters, the shoes, the charred skulls and the bullet casings that endorse what was happening in the municipality and that surely is replicated in parts of the country, are proof of the collusion and the collapse of order. Because to turn a blind eye is to be in collusion.
This time it was the Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco collective that revealed the carnage. Surely, the death camps that are discovered later will appear under the scrutiny of other collectives and militancy because power has no intention of revealing its carelessness.
Given the debate and the horror that the event has aroused, I am struck by the comparison of the Jalisco findings with what Hitler implemented during World War II to systematically eliminate six million Jews and more than four million other human beings made up of Gypsies, Romanies, political prisoners, dissidents, communists, homosexuals, people with disabilities and even people of color, who lost their lives because a tyrant decided they did not deserve it because they were different.
As we well know, the Holocaust was instrumented thanks to the legislation of a racial theory based on discrimination, degradation and dehumanization strengthened by the racial Nuremberg Laws and the idea that a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
Coined by the Jewish lawyer Rafael Lemkin to describe the 1915 massacre of one and a half million Armenians in the already dying Ottoman Empire and of which Hitler dared to comment: "And who remembers the Armenians?", the term genocide is recognized as a crime at the international level and has a specific legal definition that refers to acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial or religious ethnic group.
The comparison of the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau with those of Jalisco, can be equated by the fact that both show the disregard for life. However, unlike the German death apparatus, the national massacre shows the lack of rule of law in the country and a crime that has gotten out of the government's hands.
The most terrible thing is that the match left Mexico in a very bad position. I say this because Germany paid for its mistake with the most humiliating of defeats, division and the public shame that still accompanies it, while our country continues to go unpunished, without clarity and without sorrow. That is why it lives without heart and feels less and less the pain of its own.
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