Le´t start with Oaxaca. Before leaving for Ottawa Canada, President elect Felipe Calderón participated at the 48th annual Radio and TV week taking place in Cancún. There he condemned the take over of radio stations in Oaxaca by radical groups and he offered to take a firm stance to return the calm to that state. President Vicente Fox called on the people Oaxaca, teachers and civil society to find a constructive solution to the Oaxaca conflict, since “time is running out.” Jorge Zermeño, a PAN legislator and President of the lower house, assured that on December 1st there will be a swearing-in ceremony for Felipe Calderón despite the threats made by the APPO to stop this celebration if Ulises Ruiz, governor of Oaxaca, has not been deposed. (Basically, there is no solution in the near future. I interviewed the Secretary of Gobernación Carlos Abascal on Tuesday, the interview was broadcasted on Wednesday on Imagen News... Abascal continues to believe that a political solution is posible before December 1st.)
In other news and other conflicts, Saúl García, president of the National Colegio de
Bachilleres, (Public High Schools) warned that they will forcibly take over the building of the Ministry of Education, and local congresses, if the government does not provide the funding to level-out the teacher’s salaries around the nation.
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The situation in Oaxaca becomes understandable when one realizes that everything the government does is denounced, often for contradictory reasons.
Nearly everybody is saying the federal government must do something to solve the Oaxaca crisis, but no, never, use force!. Translation: it must intimidate and bribe. Specially, bribe.
The same people who are crying in rage because La Maestra has talked about 41 thousand millions in federal money going to the teachers (note that there will be no money unless Congres approves it, but lots of people are taking this bribe for a fact) are saying what amounts to the same thing: the government must solve this problem in the good old fashioned Pri way. What that will mean in terms of congressional approval or money passed under the table, exposing government officials to corruption charges, nobody is saying.
Meanwhile, Granados Chapa asks why Calderón has said that he won´t tolerate the taking of radio stations , but has said nothing about taking a similar position about the newspaper Noticias. Answer: he was talking about his presidential resposibilities. The agression against Noticias certainly is very serious, but it isn´t directly within federal competence.
It´s urgent to give a good, thorough look to the responsibility of the media in this matters. Many media gurus talk as if their opinion was perfectly certain and shared by everyone, when as a matter of fact it is often only a possibility, one that many of their colleagues dispute.
They complain, loudly, that the government doesn´t govern. They rarely mention that the legislature doesn´t legislate. And they conceal the fat that, all too often, the media don´t inform...
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