Javier Sicilia and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Today Gustavo Gordillo writes about Mexican circumstances. He mentions Javier Sicilia's role in the beginning of a new youth movement, against information monopolies, which are trying to force upon Mexicans their political views, something like Fox News writ large.

Televisa and Television Azteca, are not helping Mexicans decide which is the best candidate to be president of Mexico.

Javier Sicilia's demonstrations throughout Mexico have a more important objective, than a mere presidential election. Mexico is in the middle of an undeclared civil war which has claimed the lives of over fifty thousand young men and women since 2006.

In 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, also a very catholic man, led Mexicans towards independence from Spain. Napoleon , had taken Spain, and the Spaniards in Mexico, who Hidalgo represented, did not want to capitulate to the French. These Spaniards in Mexico, convinced Mexican Indians that the French were their enemies also. These Mexicans went to war against the Mexican Spaniards, not against the French in Europe, but Hidalgo, and later Allende, Iturbide and other whites, convinced the Mexicans fighting with them, that Mexico was a unique country, where everybody was the same.

Now Sicilia started a movement, and again all Mexicans have to sort out this important moment of Mexican history.

Now is May 30, 2012. Mexican students started a new student movement, today in Chilpancingo, and other Mexican cities, they marched for an unbiased media.

I did not mention Vicente Guerrero and Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, in the paragraph above, because they were not white. They represent the real change that Mexico needs. Guerrero State's capital is Chilpancingo. In Guerrero state we remember Vicente Guerrero, who was born in Tixtla, near Chilpancingo.

¡Viva Vicente Guerrero!