people and ten other people
disappear daily
so that according to the figures
official every day
75 Mexican homes want some
loved a daughter and a son
a mom or a blackout dad disappear
forever
this is what happens in our country
every day every day and what we do
many Mexicans before this painful
reality because we try to close our eyes
and we tell each other myths and self-deceptions
be able to sleep peacefully
well we say is that the best and
walking in bad steps for something the
they killed
What is more is that they kill each other
let’s count them as presumed
dead hit men and the girls
disappeared to the best walk with
bad companies
it’s more they did not disappear when murisi
they fled with the boyfriends
let’s count them as people not
located and so we lie all
the days
we use these prejudices because they are
prejudice for is to feel for
imagine that nothing will happen to us
us because we are the ones
good not like them who were with
bad companies
but to think like that is not only infant
It is also harmful to us
themselves and for our country because good
Well first because we are all
exposed to the risk of being victims of
some second and most important crime
because these myths paralyze us they avoid
that we question what is happening in
Mexico
they prevent us from reporting and that we
organize to find solutions
real but do not be exaggerated tell me
a friend and now that things are not
so bad
other countries are the same can not be
let’s not see for example mexico is the
the world’s main economy just
After Spain and Australia
but while those countries have rates
of one homicide per 100,000
inhabitants in Mexico we have a rate
of 10 9
look at colima we have a rate of
80 homicides per 100 thousand
inhabitants higher than the rate
honduras in warrior we have a fee
higher than that of the savior with that of
venezuela in chihuahua we have a fee
higher than that of jamaica in sinaloa
one higher than that of Belize for that of
guatemala according to the standard of
world health organization in
mexico we live an epidemic of
homicides the truth is that things if
that’s how the foundation is for example
open society published last year a
report on serious violations to
human rights
But as complaints pile up and
the evidence for cases of disappearances
forced and torture
many Mexicans close our eyes before
what is happening in mexico
look at the truth is that it is not normal
have the army patrolling the
streets in democratic countries that
appoints the state of law
the armies do not put roadblocks in the
roads according to the right
international humanitarian is to say the
Geneva conventions that a government
have to resort to the army to
cope with protracted situations
of violence is already considered as a
first symptom of an armed conflict
but many Mexicans keep closing
the eyes and we do not want to see the
militarization of public safety
what is happening in our country and
we tell ourselves the worst of all we did
good that there was no other we say
is that it is the price that we have to
pay to win this war against the
narcos
could be but let’s see what is certain is that
violence in mexico follows a
descending historical trend and
we are at stable minimum levels
until we decide to enter a
frontal combat policy against
drug trafficking was only after
we started and we entered fully into the
war on drugs that shot up
violence in mexico
this homicide data published by the
ine for its methodological quality
represents the strongest evidence and
most reliable we have to study
these problems in mexico and these data
refute many myths for example is a
myth to believe that there was a wave of
violence that had been growing since
before 2006 and that this year we did not have
more remedy than pulling the army to
streets
the data tells us it ‘s a minute
It is also a myth to believe that this is a
partisan problem because because in the
year 2000 we change parties at a level
federal
and notice there did not offer any wave
of violence in 2012 also
we went back to change parties but today
the wave of violence
declined and now it goes up or the
myth that it ‘s now fashionable that everything
It’s the fault of the new justice system
because this system is a door
rotating that leave the
criminals to see the new system of
accusatory justice came into force
just in the middle of last year in
summer of 2016
then all this wave of violence
previous that is where it came from or the
myths of family dinners we are not
having dinner and at the beginning not the good
The underlying problem is the lack of
values if all educate their children well
and the obligatory answer in the same dinner
family
no, the problem is poverty and
inequality
if there were more jobs and so on
et cetera look if the main
causes of violence in mexico were
poor education poverty
unemployment what we would see in levels
high and stable homicides in
all these years
why then because those problems
they have remained constant more or less
in all this time that change did not fall
so dramatic and he jumped so weird
after 2006 2007 tells us that
there was a conjunctural change in mexico and
that was what changed because it was that
change conjuncture g what changed
in Mexico it can be read in the plan
national development 2007 2012 and what
what happens is that we implement a
frontal combat policy against
drug trafficking based mainly on
militarized operatives of character
permanent that is without clear objectives
and precise goals and without times
bounded and here are many more
details that were worth applying with
calm but only time the house
as for example what happened in 2009
they had legal changes that changed
the crimes of drug trafficking in the jurisdiction
federal government and forced states and
municipalities in the afternoon already fully in this
war against the narco or for example the
myth that drug use in
mexico are already described to did this is
a myth because all the activities
Consubstantial to consumption as cultivate
own to bring they are still
criminalized is a minute but
I do not currently have the time to
do all these things that happened in
mexico then what can you
apply is that in general terms
was with the exception of michoacán was in
the states where these were deployed
permanent operations against
drug trafficking where waves of
violence here for example is
warrior in color
here you can see what happened in low
california after the operation
tijuana and you can also see what
it happened in Chihuahua that was terrible
after the operation in Ciudad Juárez
can see what happened in sinaloa in
durango after the operations of
culiacán and the body of the operation in
the golden triangle
a year later we intensified the
operative northeast in new lion and in
Tamaulipas and later in Coahuila
and give what happened and if we see states
contiguous as zacatecas san luis
what we see is that its dynamics reveal
a further spread of the
violence and so we can analyze everything
the country
well I was telling another friend this is your
opinion
I have listened to other opinions and poems
and they are my friends that we are going to make
yes but to see this is not my opinion
these are the data you publish in
mexico with the best quality
methodological and it’s the most evidence
solid that we have to talk about these
problems
and good if the problem is that I
explained very badly in a very bad way
then you can read the
original diagnosis that he wrote
fernando escalante of the school of
Mexico
it’s not that those of the colmex have a lot
good letter ok we can read the
diagnosis a second opinion of
josé merino the datáfono and professor of the
itam
let’s go we lost rude to see ok
ask him eduardo rodríguez
already emerged flowers of the tec de
monterrey defense of tiles
but this northern one is spoken very battered
Well let’s ask Melissa
Harvard University
not because look use colors and toilets ok
ok they not like them then you elisa
we give gabriela calderón gustavo
robles alberto díaz calleros and beatriz
Magaloni business froward tam
fox also none of them like
what seems to them then thorny valley and
donald rubin her google analyst and
the professor emeritus of harvard he is
the father of the statistical models of
causality and if good missé millán me
I’m already tired these profess
merits I do not believe anything I already told me
nothing to anyone and that in fact also
goes right is positive be skeptical
yourselves review data and
evidence available all the data that
has taught them are public and
anyone can download the and
analyze them clear that it is worth and is more
you also have to see for example
more evidence different data
corroborate the diagnosis that already
we have for example can see it well
of arms and military assistance
U.S
You can also see for example
complaints before the national commission of
human rights here in black
there are complaints about arrests
arbitrary and legal retentions in
red are the complaints for treatment
inhuman and cruel and degrading
Torture complaints and in blue
there are complaints about searches and visits
illegal domiciliary
Of course it is worth being clear skeptics
what are you going to do yourself
these and other data plus what is not
ok is where repeating the myths that
sustain violence in mexico
look at the camera a short time ago
deputies someone told me good if there
three are the data but that is more
important that data with my perception
and the perceptions the people that
I want you to vote for me
look at that, it is not worth who
talk about background problems because that
attitude is a real problem of
Fund in Mexico and other countries
for that anti – scientific attitude of
disregard for empirical evidence is
that we have politicians in the world that
they say that climate change is a
fraud that are small that someone
wrote or that vaccines cause
autism and for that same attitude in
against empirical evidence is that
Mexico, we have not been able to prescribe or
apply a true cure for
epidemic of violence that we are
living
as long as we continue to believe in this myth
that we have no choice but to be
engaged in this war
drugs because we will continue embroiled
in a spiral of endless violence
because it’s because this drug
this war on drugs does not depend
of us depends primarily on
the huge demand for drugs that exists
in the United States and then depends on the
international prohibition regime
what it says is that some substances and
only one are illegal but others are not
Icarus in second instance depends on
the offer that comes from Mexico and from
other countries to raise this market
labeled as illegal
look at the united states they started their
war since 1970 with richard nixon and
as you all know the demand for
drugs there has not diminished everything
contrary
so I ask you
how many more decades do you want
mexico continue in this war
how many more people have to die
how many more people have to
disappear would not be much better to
shake
our myths and disappear our
prejudices I think yes I think that
it’s time to dare to review and
discuss with maturity
the alternative regulatory schemes
of the drug market that are already applied
in other countries for example we can
dare to see to discuss to read to
know to practice without prejudice what
that has been done for many years
in belgium ecuador spain new
Very important zealand in portugal
Czech republic and in Uruguay and very
probably now in canada the
next year
and of course it is in several states of
United States and it’s time to
dare to think that drugs are
a public health problem and not one
of public safety but you guys
they will say no good is that that is not going to
reduce violence in mexico because
the criminals who are engaged in other
things and it’s true so these have
the whole reason
the reform to the drug policy not
it’s a magic solution to solve
the problems from one day to the next
overnight
the reform of drug policy is
a first step that we can give so that
so that the limited resources that
they have our security systems
justice are focused on the
fight drug trafficking to destroy
plantings find packages of plants
and better use those resources and the
concentrate on investigating and pursuing
crimes that affect us Mexicans
like the homicides the disappearances
the assaults the extortions
there is the true value of this
reform
ok well and in addition to the first step what
more we can do perfect we can
support other initiatives of society
civilians seeking to reduce violence and
strengthen our systems
security of justice
for example we can support the campaign
extinct life that seeks that in all
Latin America reduce the
homicides we can help families
Mexicans looking for their daughters and sons
disappeared through the campaign
if families can not join the
international campaign nor one less for
that to visualize and eradicate
feminicide and violence of
gender
we can support the campaign nor one more
to protest against the
murders of journalists and
human rights defenders
we can join the initiative
security without war to search
real alternatives to militarization
of security in Mexico
is more can we now that is in this
high point of the discussion we can
support the prosecution campaign that serves
to promote true autonomy
in the procurement of justice in
Mexico
and even more we can help
strengthen security and justice in
mexico supporting the campaign a
justice without pretexts as you see there
many things we can do from
our homes from our phones
but still someone still
Look here, tell us, look, I do not want to see
data nor do I want to make diagnoses
I want initiatives or want anything from
this, in fact, is still fine
because because there is one more thing that
all of us can do that in addition
It is a very important thing and
indispensable to finish with this
epidemic of violence each and every one
of us we can stop believing and
we can stop repeating the myths that
they sustain violence in mexico many
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