By PATRICK ALCATRAZ
Editor-In-Chief
BROWNSVILLE, TX - Roughly 100 years ago, when Mexico tortured itself with its revolution, killings along the northern regions were as commonplace as they are today. Pancho Villa's Division Del Norte held sway against the government troops, its fight for the people now enshrined in music and lore. It is a story worthy of Humanity's demand that Life be more than steady doses of oppression, corruption and poverty. Villa made his noise, things changed for a time, but little beneficial resulted in the long run. The Aztec Nation, cursed to be a beautiful country, is forever being soiled by leaders uninterested in honest, honorable progress.
These days, Mexico is a disgrace. Never in its storied history has it danced with the criminals as it now dances, its legs wide-apart, its skirt pulled above the navel, the focus of its desire painfully obvious. If a country could ever be sexed, well, Mexico has postured itself for a sexing of astral proportions. There is no other way to see it, or to say it.
And here, locally, perhaps the time has come to rise against the tragedy and not merely stay on the chorizo taco trail while looking the other way. Mexico is right there! You can hear the daily gunfire, the guttural familial crying, the deafening funeral dirges...and still nothing from the Rio Grande Valley - a land comprised of thousands of Mexicans.
A few days ago, Valleyites marched in honor of tireless farmworker advocate Cesar Chavez. Maybe it's time area Mexicans lined-up to do the same while demanding that Mexico clean up its act. Is there no decency left in the RGV? Does the region merely sit back, drink its horchata and scarf down its fajitas while hearing that yet another 15 to 20 Mexicans living there across the Rio Grande have fallen, fallen with gaping wounds usually associated with wanton killings in Da Nang, Fallujah, Baghdad. Surely, the RGV cannot ignore this forever, although the mindset here seems to adhere to the philosophy that, yeah, so long as I can get my fat ass over to Tacos El Campeon...then everything's alright.
Parents and grandparents of every single descendant of every single Mexican sentiently pushes love for the homeland. But there are times when Love is Hell. Yes, there is shame floating all across the Mexican Empire.
That Empire, by way of ancestry, also includes the Rio Grande Valley. Like it or not, it does...
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12 comments:
people in the valley do ignore Mexico. They are Mexicans but not Mexicans. you call them mexicans and they get mad. be careful, editor
Are you writing like Klements now???, whats wrong with a little prayer, it is holy week, you know.
Mexico is a soverign country, inciting violance can land you in jail, not only in Mexico, but here in the U.S as well. (Sober up)
Don Patricio, my good compadre, have you ever been in the Mexican Slammer, it is not fun, we feel for our bethrens from accross the Rio Grande, I know you don't like to hear the word "prayer" but we do pray for them, more often than you think.
Back to work,campaigns are expensive, they require time, lots of time and resources.
All: Sorry for being out of the cockpit. Long lunch with a nice lady ina nice restaurant. Time flies. Anyway, (1.) no we've never been in a Mexican Slammer (2.) No one writes like Ricardo Klement (3.) We're not inciting violence. We're looking for solutions. (4.) Whose campaign?... - Editor
helping out some good friends that are running for city commissioners and one for Mayor thirty miles from your favorite hang out Brownsville.
I have been keeping up with your articles, pretty good articles I might add. Well have to go.
The stories about the Valley and Mexico, well what can we add, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. To bad, no one listens.
RESPONSE: (1.) Well, thanks for that, Don Pancho. And good luck on the campaign trail. (2.) It is a sad state of affairs, Anon. The RGV could be one of those special and unique places in this country. As close as it comes to that, however, is in the come-and-go minds of the Winter Texans. Locals see the fatalistic system that's in place and accept it. There is no Social Fight in Valleyites, and that is the image most people elsewhere have when discussing the RGV... - Editor
Just visited el roci, man that blog is filthy, pure pornographic stuff. Keep clean here, Juan Montoya's blog and yours are pretty equal. Good work
Anonymous said...
The stories about the Valley and Mexico, well what can we add, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. To bad, no one listens.
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To Discouraged Anon:
Yes! People do listen:
840 AM Digital/640 AM Digital
Desde Brownsville
Sin Pelos en la Lengua...
from 7am to 9am
Duardo is a Lover not a fighter.
Annie Gunn
Anon: (1.) We expect to one day write something good about the RGV; it's just that things perhaps need to be said. Does it matter? We have been asking ourselves that very question. As for comparing us to Juan Montoya, well, there is one huge ethical difference between Juanito and us. He knows it and we know it, so...(2.) We do not know 840 AM, but will check it out. If you offer Mana and Los Bukis, we're there with you. (3.) Duardo can at times be an insatiable lover, although what he likes to say is that there is a time for everything, romance and dancing and partying and traveling and goofing included. Happy Easter!... - Editor
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