Lately I’ve been doing alot of thinking, pondering actually. I know where I come from, I know our history. I know about the Aztecs, Hernan Cortez, and the Spanish Peninsulares. I know our politics, religion, sociology and the statistics of all three. I know about psychology, poverty, pain and dispair. I can tell you all about our corruption, greed, transfers of wealth, deception, manipulation and our ‘enemies within’, the narcos.
I know the narcos now hold the power to manipulate, corrupt, terrorize, and destroy. Death is their friend and executions are games. I know they kill eachother and others, both friends and foe, male, females, any and all. What I can’t wrap my finger around is why, or maybe what I don’t understand is how.
Everyday I open the newspaper to these images and everyday I open the paper to news about what type of monsters are leaving behind these scenes of torture and sadistic destruction, our lost generation.
The average age of a narco sicario, or executioner, is 23. How did it come to this? As a parent, I try to imagine what type of childhood could possibly create such evil. What would it take to cause one not only to take another life, but to torture it first and butcher it after?
Does it stem from their parents? Where they abused as children by cruel hands? Where they left hungry, scared, in pain and broken? Where they never loved, never taught to love and respect?
Or did society deal and losing hand? Have the injustices passed down to generation after generation simply become too much? Can poverty, lack of education, and loss of faith cause such hate?
I need to know HOW WE GOT HERE and more importantly WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
I can’t help but wonder if all the narcos where to suddenly disappear; if there were no more killings, corruption, bullets, beheadings, extortions, kidnappings, if it all just went away and we were left with nothing but peace and tranquility....Would we be free, could we move on without scars?
If the we win the war against drugs, will we really be winners; and if so, at what cost?
We have become desensitized: man, woman, and child alike. No longer to we retract in fear and disgust at such images, instead we make comments like: He deserved it, just another narco, or just another corrupt politician who sold out our country.
We no longer question if the unknown body void of limbs had a family, we assume it too was evil and deserving of whatever pain and suffering it received.
We no longer stop to wonder if ‘it’ was innocent. We no longer feel pain for it’s family or name. We no longer care.
What will become of future generations? What will become of children born to parents who no longer recoil when facing such images, to parents who no longer feel for mankind?
Will our future generations be able to draw the line? Will they be able to see good and bad, or like us, will every deceased be found ‘guilty as charged’ pre and post mortum? Will they ever remember life before the war on drugs? Will we?
Is there really a difference between ‘us’ and ‘them’, good and evil, or is the monster in each and everyone us, just waiting to be set free? Are we simply products of our environment? HOW DID WE GET TO THIS?
Are there ever winners in any war? Will we ever be the same? WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
I don’t think these things can ever take place if concerned officials are doing their job properly.Why are they not interested in preventing these happenings?
Do they think that it’s the job of conman man to eliminate these bastards ?The common man can only cooperate but the major task is to be done by people in high places.
Okay,let’s assume they are corrupt and are not interested.Then it’s a revolution like scenario.The people should come on streets and change the whole system.That’s the only solution.
If you people will not wake from deep slumber, you will all be butchered one by one.
What you say is very true...
The truth is us ’common people’ are at fault for what is happening. We were content in the past to let our well known political corruption take place, after all, it ’wasn’t really affecting us’..
Same with the narcos, in the past we just didn’t care, afterall, the narcos only ’trafficked drugs’ THROUGH Mexico on their way to the big buyers in the U.S.
That was then, this is now..The corrupt politicians and the narcos have now joined teams with the now corrupted cops and judges and now only traffick through Mexico, but in Mexico, as well.
The crackdown on drugs and corruption by our President’s is admirable and historical, but it will never work on it’s own..
Something needs to be done by us commoners. There are reportedly around 500,000 mebers of organized crime (who knows for sure, add those to the corrupt politicians and judicial officals and the number rises significantly, but the point is, there are over 110 MILLION citizens...citizens who have to step up and fight for the return of our country.
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........That’s very well stated Oscar.I don’t think there is anything impossible if it has got support of commoners.It’s not law but the will of people that leads to creation of better society.
I pray that your society gets above such drug wars !!
If they are going to do it anyway, we need to remove the BAN, control the now-legal activity and the deaths will stop.
Look at liquor, cigarettes, gambling, sex-for-sale (in some places); no cartels, gangs, bribes, life goes on.