Mexico with a soft totalitarian régime

National Mexico leaves the democracy and it traffics to a soft totalitarian régime Mexico with a soft totalitarian régime By: Carlos Damian December 28, 2013 The result is logical considering neoliberal régime has stayed in 30 years Mexico. - “At Mexico, like in several countries of the world, the democracy is stopping to exist gradually to open the way to a régime of “soft totalitarianism", product of the neoliberalism", Tariq Ali affirms (Pakistan, 1943). He journalist is in Mexico invited for the FIL 13 (Books’ Fair 13), in the Zocalo of the DF. The appointment with the film director and historian is in the hotel in the Historical Center, and when leaving Tarik Ali (TA) to the street, it asks him to be made a picture behind with the uniformed ones and it points out: "I am not surprised what happens now in Mexico: it is the logical result of the neoliberal politicians that until ago they not a lot had certain controls, but they have gotten lost all type of restrictions and the neoliberal today they operate freely; the bad thing is that this can put on even worse, it is a process of degeneration". It aimed that they are accepting as normal the old totalitarian habits that they already knew each other: "In this normalization, it doesn't care how party wins, if it is of right or of center left-wing, because it is a system in which the totalitarian party has a control hegemonic and it dominates the whole system." All conspire against the memory of the Tata Lazaro He was in Mexico in 2007, at the Guadalajara’s FIL, and it began the régime of Felipe Calderon’s government, and he affirmed then in those time that The States had worked very hard so that its candidate won, (La Jornada, 12/2/07). “In the entire world a thought always exists: the things cannot put on worse, but yes, yes they become worse. When we were here six years ago, many people waited that before an election so clearly manipulated the citizens would be inflamed and there would be protests, but that didn't happen, the process continued", he explains. For such a reason, he remarks: "So that a system changes the active participation of all the agents of the society it is required. In the moment in that a group or movement you refuse to participate, like they made the Zapatistas political line that then said 'we don't get dirty the hands in matters like the political', in that moment the change is disabled. It is the same position that they are taking the indignant ones in Spain. "Those arguments, to say that the politics is dirty and to abandon everything, it doesn't serve us. If you don’t act with the tools of the political system it gives way any possibility of change." He is advisory of the channel of South American television Telesur, with headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, and author of the book Pirates from the Caribbean. The axis of the hope, in which presents Fidel Castro, Moral Evo and Hugo Chavez’s biography, affirms that the only country where there are an advance and an authentic system change is Venezuela. "We doesn't call to what it happens an authentic revolution there, but if a real work exists in the poor's favor; it is the only region that is moving nowadays in that address. In Mexico there was that possibility of change. If the group that pushed Calderon had not manipulated the elections, this country would be going in that address". Now what could work, adds: "it is the combination of a charismatic leader with a clear ideations, and a social movement that bolsters it and take charge that that program is a reality. But the leaders don't fall of the sky; they are product of very concrete situations. Mexico has a rich tradition in that aspect, there it is the rural Revolution of 1910, pushing to the country to change, or the pattern of the Republic of Lazaro Cardenas that pushed to the nation in people address more unprotection. There is not a single leader, the important thing it is that they push to the nation in the correct way." It is normal the spoil and the abuse in the neoliberal régime On purpose of the revelations that the former agent Edward Snowden (ES) he made to the German weekly publication ‘Der Spiegel’, diffused at international level regarding that the Agency of American National Security (NSA) it spied the former president's electronic mail, AT he jokes: "It is necessary to tell him to ES that what really interests us to know is not how many shot Calderon threw, but how and what interests they manipulated those elections". “This character has been activist political from the sixties; he studied Political Sciences and Philosophy in Oxford. In 1990 he began to write fiction, and their work ‘The Shadows of the Pomergranate Tree’, a study about the decadence of the Muslim civilization, it was rewarded in 1994 in Spain like the best novel foreigner. He insists in that live in a world dominated by what called the ' extreme centre', a current that supports the wars, the combat, the abuse, the spoil and the neoliberal behavior that you leave in the entire world". In Mexico, the enemy is double: not only the local oligarchy, but the great American empire, because it is strategically a country very important, for that reason the neighbor of the north will always invest and to spend what is necessary so that the oligarchy here stays where it is." In their words, “the left-wing, anyone that this is, has to understand that when it attacks the interests of the local oligarchy, it attacks to the empire. The symbolic acts are very important, but by themselves they don't achieve a lot. All this has been seen in Europe". “The only country where the left-wing movements spread toward something different it is in Greece. The middle class is terrified with the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syirza) that has fused in an unique party the factions and organizations that up to now composed it, with the purpose of reinforcing its possibilities to become government's alternative". The leader of this party, Alexis Tsipras, with who spoke last week, is a very intelligent and capable type. They asked him that to who he admired in the world and Hugo Chavez responded; immediately all the European means left on him. But it didn't change their speech. "Leaders like these are needed. Hugo Chavez was a person with a lot of passion; he didn't have fear to say what thought. Cocktail with a strong social movement pushed to the change. Their absence is a hard blow, it gets lost a lot, but neither we should think that a movement depends on a single person, we would be condemned to the failure." Venezuela depended too much of Chavez "The great weakness of the ‘bolivarian movement’ in Venezuela is that too much of Chavez depended, and that told it to him. It bothered him, but it recognized it and he explained to me: 'That is the problem that we face, because the whole middle class is hostile to our project, if you don't understand it is that you are not seeing the whole picture”. “It was certain, Chavez and its group they were very isolated of that sector that traditionally produces the intellectuals and the spokesmen of the society. An intellectual of left of a university, my friend, when asking him why it didn't support Hugo Chavez, he responded me: 'It is that we don't support to a zambo one, somebody that has slave’s blood’. We have never seen such a marked racism as which there is in Venezuela. The hate that Chavez generated in some sectors of the society was terrible, in the media they ended up him to call ape, due to that deep racism. For that reason he had to work from zero to integrate to the society in their project, that it was their great problem. Today, the other one (side of the polyhedron) it is that Nicolas Maduro it is not only Chavez, but rather it seeks an error, politics and psychologically, big, trying to be it." TA has just written a script about Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (Lenin) -1870-1924 -, to commemorate the centennial of the Bolshevik revolution, and perhaps it is a project with a different vision: "we live in a world in which all conspire against the memory, because the history offers solutions to the citizens. Without the enormous sacrifice of the Russian town and the key victories of the red army the war had not ended up as it finished. In many places they don't deny it, but neither have they spoken of this". It is also necessary to remember that the American empire has not finished, it is strong. That the left-wing says the opposite it is dangerous and false. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 6a-7a, December 16, 2013).