The mistreated Mexico’s tourists

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The Spanish absurdity
The mistreated Mexico’s tourists
By: Carlos Damián June 5, 2012
The measures of Spain are unfortunate and anything friendly
México. - The Ministry of External Relationships (SRE, in Spanish) it manifested last Friday (6/1/12) your concern in “the increment of numbers of rejected Mexican visitors' cases, retained and later on repatriated to our country to their arrival to the airports of Madrid, and Barcelona", with the argument that “they don't complete certain administrative requirements", as the call “invitation letter” -a absurdity if you are tourist and you are being on holiday in Europe – made it by some European citizen and the possession, in cash, of a certain quantity of Eurus –USD- for every day of permanency.

When continuing with the information, the dependence with headmistress Patricia Espinosa requested to their similar of Spain “to assist this matter with the required urgency, with object of to offer a viable solution and to avoid unjustified retentions as well as returns to the origin country without the valises and the Mexican tourist's documents in the respective airports”. The official statement of the Mexican chancellery comes preceded of a growing number of compatriots complaints that they assure to have received revolting treatments, psychological pressure and verbal violence to its arrival to the air terminals of Barajas y El Prat in the Iberian nation, and that they were object of “quick and instantaneous expulsions” for supposedly not to present the requirements to certify its stay like tourists.

The backdrop of this phenomenon belongs the worsening from the entrance politicians to Spain that Jose Luis Zapatero socialist government adopted that worsen politician is had soon after the arrival to Mariano Rajoy's Moncloa, of the Popular Party. These activities anti migrant have been fed, against foreign citizens that visit Spain for strict tourist, academic reasons and of business, without emigrating intention in indefinite form to that country that so bad it cooks the foreign tourists. Although the government's Mexican posture collision with their own attitude toward migrants of the center and South American in the national territory, but queerly it doesn't reject the Spanish foreigners in the same measure. It claims formulated to the Spanish diplomacy it is in itself reasonable.

Without ignoring that the migratory guidelines of a country are a sovereign decision, there is not any justification to subject citizens from any nationality to arbitrary retentions by no means to offensives, and unworthy treatments in the airports’ facilities. On the other hand if the case that people that have been deported from Spain to Mexico they had the intention of remaining indefinitely in the European country was, the samples of racism, intolerance, xenophobia and until criminalization that these Mexican citizens have denounced, on the part of the agents and Spanish authorities give us a recount of damages and a balance of a lack of understanding and of conscience on the nature of the migratory phenomenon; about the importance of these in the constitution of almost all the state-nation at the moment existent, and on the valuable contributions of those waves to the cultures and economies of regions and countries.

Apart from this it is paradoxical that a government that is shown so hard against real and presumed migrants it is characterized, at the same time, to apply measures that of persisting, they will force many compatriots to a circumstance of economic exodus. Indeed, in a Spain characterized by the galloping unemployment, for the severe cuttings as regards education and health, for the collapse of the apparatus of well-being and for the warning of the Spanish government's own leader that there will be reformations and additional adjustments, it would not be an error to suppose that to the expelled foreigners of the Iberian nation they will be added late that early to an uncertain number of peninsular citizens before the lack of opportunities inside their own country.

The measure of Spain is paranoiac and xenophobic
In an official statement the SRE pointed out that the fact doesn't reflect "the excellent levels of friendship and cooperation” that exist among both nations. On purpose of this topic, Eduardo Rosales, specialist of the UNAM in international relationships, pointed out that the demand of an invitation letter is “a measure anything friendly, unfortunate, discriminatory and until incongruous with the colossal crisis that Spain lives that has more than 25% unemployment".

The fact of demanding entrance requirements as having ticket of round trip, to check economic solvency and to demonstrate that the tourists have a true relationship with people that invites them, this fact doesn't even assist to real approaches of security, and only sample a serious coordination lack among authorities of Spain. This measure is applied for two years, and it caused that 260 Mexican tourists were repatriated in 2011, and in 2010 they were near 440, what contrasts with the 280 thousand Spanish that entered Mexico that same year without any problem. The same regulation should be applied to the Spanish ones that they arrive to the country, to return them ‘ipso facto’. But the change is warned from the migratory regulation to Mexico with the one whom strong bonds of friendship and trade are had. Although the chancellor's announcement of Spanish of being solved the problem in 24 hours has not been completed.

In the context of an economy globalized, it is pertinent and necessary that the national authorities overturn the resources within their reach so that they advance toward a conception of the humanist and less racist, xenophobic migratory flows and schizophrenic like the one that today reigns in many nations, Spain and The States among them. It is recommended you aren’t to visit Spain. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 6-31, June 2, 2012)