From the New Yorker: The voids in Mexico’s government are all too obvious now. The country seems to be trembling at the edge of a terrible cataclysm or, for the hopeful, an inspiring transformation. “When a country has lost faith in all its institutions, it looks inward, or at itself in the mirror, in a search for solutions,” a prominent political reporter for a major daily newspaper told me recently. (He was fearful of repercussions should his name be used.) He thinks that is what is happening now. He points to the birth and growth of a large number of citizens’ groups (there has been increased participation in community self-defense groups, the student movement, and civic crusades against violence), and to the galvanized nationwide response to the tragedy of the missing students of Ayotzinapa Normal School.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:48:57 +0000