Extinction of Central Light and Force

Felipe Calderón ended yesterday the Mexican Electric Company, "Luz y Fuerza del Centro", after fifteen years of existence. Mexican presidents before him established the National Electric Company. A few years after the Mexican Revolution ended, in 1937, General Lázaro Cárdenas, established the Mexican Electric Industry, in 1960 President Adolfo López Mateos, nationalized it, and now, it seems to me, Calderón is in the process of de-nationalizing it.

Maybe readers of this note do not know the differences implied by the current Mexican President's actions.

First of all, thousands of Mexican workers will lose their jobs, or pensions; and second, a new wave of wealthy people, like the richest man of Latin America, Carlos Slim Helú, will become even richer.

As far as I am concerned, this is the end of a Mexican Era, Yesterday 10/10/2009, two days before we celebrate the five hundred and seventeenth anniversary of the discovery of America. Mexico has fully entered in a Neo Liberal Era; when the rest of Latin America is veering left.

We are in the middle of a long weekend, three days off. Everybody is celebrating our team's victory against El Salvador, and consequent chance to become the next champion of the soccer world in South Africa.

Bread and Circus, the old Roman method of crowd control, still works after so many centuries.