Until when? - 2011

For the final project I took a current theme that by the time I write this is still unresolved: the current violence happening in Mexico.

As a fellow Mexican, I know two things about my people: The first one is that culturally we've been a violent country, because we've been violated too many times. The Second thing is exactly that: the perpetrators are no longer outsiders, but ourselves. This is not about domination from foreign ideologies, is about us surviving. We want justice, but we despise the methods to bring it.

The unequal distribution of the economy and the unresolved needs of the people have led the people to become ferocious animals, where surviving is the only thing that matters. Hunger driving the ones pulling the trigger and Gluttony as a motive on the other side. And us, the ones in the middle we can't do much.

Terrorized by the delinquents, who usually have the upper hand when it comes to force, we are the victims of our fellow men. We then turn to the authorities, the ones supposed to be doing something but half the time they simply don't care, as their own well being is not being disrupted.

It's a tricky situation: We empathize with the perpetrators, because they are the son of our neighbor or the shady kid we grew with, and we loathe the justice bringers, for they are different and they live away from this pain, in their fortified mansions. Yet, we want them to solve our problem. We tend to think "If only they knew what I'm passing through they'd solve it"

Indeed, empathy is a needed skill for our leaders. But what about us? Do we have the empathy we are talking about? Do we care for others? Do we seek the well being of our country? After all, the cops and the robbers come from only one place: from the people, from the ones being called "the victims".

Until when will this problem stop?

Until we take the matter in our own hands. There's only one way, and whether we like it or not, it's on us. It's on us to seek for better opportunities, as we know the Government will not do much about this and they will not hand them to us in a silver tray. It's on us to share the little goods we have with others that haven't had the luck we had. It's on us to be faithful to each other, honest and caring, it's on us to care for somebody else other than myself.

It's a beautiful country, indeed, but there are just too many jerks living on it right now.