In a novel* I've been reading lately -- a book published a few years ago but dealing largely with incidents in the 1970's in a town in Mexico -- the author writes about the constant, worrying increase in violence and then remarks:
"At the political level, the only thing worth mentioning is the incipient opposition, both on the left and on the right. The left continues despite the infighting practically tearing them apart, and saying right in Paracuán is the equivalent of saying far right: ignorant people, racist and unaccustomed to actual thinking."
Maybe when we graduate from being like Mexico in the 1970's we'll become, in thirty or forty years, more like Mexico in the first decade of the new millenium, warring corporate gangs and all. Oh joy.
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*Martín Solares, "The Black Minutes"
