AMLO for President in 2012 and The End of the World

AMLO is a man I have defended in this blog. He represents hope for some Mexicans like me. Today he announced he is running for president of Mexico again in 2012.

I explain the title of the note here.

I found out about the Mayan prophecy while browsing books in the New Age section of an American bookstore. I am Mexican and had never heard of such a thing. I even read two books I don't feel like quoting the books here, it is not that I don't believe, what is there not to believe? Nothing can be done until the year comes and goes. It is true that the Mayan calendar was better than the then current one in Europe, but what else is new. The Catholic Church in Europe did not want to accept the use of number zero, because according to them it represented wrong ideas from the East, specifically the Buddhist idea of Nirvana. Therefore it does not surprise me that the Mayan Calendar was better, they also used number zero.

The date 2012 is written in stone, somewhere between Mexico and Guatemala.

I buy all that; but what does it mean?

The problem is that the Mayans responsible for writing that, were dead when the Spaniards got around that piece of rock, or Stella. There is nobody there to ask, the Mayan culture collapsed before Europeans got there. It seems that a 18 month drought killed the civilization, not the people, they are still living in Mexico and Guatemala. The civilization ended.

In the case of the Aztecs the story is different, their civilization was around during the time I'm referring to here. Half of them died of disease, after the Spaniards came, because of the lack of immunity to European diseases, for which Europeans had already build immunity.

That is why I do not believe prophets of doom for 2012.

Nevertheless that is the year Mexicans change presidents again. The current one, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, stole the election to AMLO last time. Now AMLO wants it back.

AMLO stands for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, we Mexicans love long names, I am Gilberto Eduardo Cantoral Uriza., or GECU. I hope no hacker is reading this; they could try to brake my passwords.

Going back to AMLO; what did he do all this time since he was robbed?

As the Kennedys say, don't get mad, get even!

He is the only Mexican politician I know of ,that has gone to ALL Mexican county capitals of the country.If you are not Mexican you may think that is not a big deal, but I know better. Most of those counties are so poor, that no politician wastes his efforts going to them. AMLO believes in democracy, the meaning of the word is government by the people, ALL the people. So AMLO is the only one that can claim a representation to be president.

In a democratic country that should be enough, but Mexico is not really democratic in that sense. Anyway, I expect a big battle in Mexico in 2012.

Mayans do not have anything to do with it. If anything the Zapatista Movement, which is a Mayan Movement has kept his distance form AMLO.

Come to think of it; maybe they know something?