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Rio de Janeiro and the Old West

Rio de Janeiro and the Old West

As Rio de Janeiro deals with murderers. As the Old West was dealing with them.

Julius Severus

Despite the title, the city of Rio de Janeiro has nothing to do with the Old West. Not that there was no violence in the Old West. There was, but not enough seen in Rio de Janeiro in the XXI century.

injustice that abounds in Rio was scarce in the Old West. As in Rio, all the criminals of the Old West were carrying firearms for their crimes. But very different from what happens in Rio de Janeiro in the Old West all carry guns, so to attack the innocent, a criminal needed to be very smart to not be killed.

Rio Criminals attack their victims by trusting that the State has done its dirty work of disarming the population, ensuring the insecurity of the victims and the safety for the murderers.

In the modern city of Rio de Janeiro, often the murderer escapes with impunity. For criminals of the Old West, Rio de Janeiro would be a truly wonderful, since impunity that reigns in Rio did not reign in the Old West. The American murderer was quickly tried and hanged. When running away being chased by the sheriff and citizens ready to guarantee that the murderer should pay with his life the life he had taken. When the thief fled to an unknown place, his head was making money, which meant that anyone who found him or kill him would receive a cash prize.

The ethics of self-defense for the citizen and the death penalty for murderers in the Old West was supported by the principles of the Bible. The Protestant Ethic (or evangelical) ruled mostly American society in the nineteenth century. The innocent had the Bible in one hand and a gun in the other.

In Rio, although the number of evangelical Christians is great, no ethics that influence the laws to give citizens the right to defend themselves or to remove the existence of criminal murderous activities. In Brazil in general and in Rio, so particular, in the innocent hand can only have the Bible, being in the hands of all murderers pistols, rifles, machine guns, etc..

In the West, the offenders were faced with bullets by the citizens, who had their guns ready to present strong resistance to crime.

In Rio, the citizens when they can hide from the bullets. When they can not are made, even by stray bullets.

In the Old West, one murder was enough for the criminal - was an adult or adolescent - end up at the gallows. No ECA (Statute of Children and Adolescents) and advocates of the bandits.

In Rio de Janeiro, criminals compete to see who kills more, and adolescent murderers never end up in jail, as they have their rights guaranteed by ACE to kill as many citizens want. At 18, given ACE release from the institution of rehabilitation, with the resume completely clean, as if they never killed a fly in its existence. Is it surprising then that in Rio de Janeiro has many advocates for the rights of gang members, weary paid with tax money?

In the West, the bandit had to think twice before attacking the innocent, not to finish himself with a bullet in the forehead.

In Rio, the villain does not need to think, because only the victims end up with a bullet in the forehead.

In the West, hanging was the fate of the murderer insurance.

In Rio de Janeiro's death is the fate of victims of murderers, who may choose to strangulation, torture and other atrocities they wish to apply to victims.

Between Old West and Rio de Janeiro, prefer the Old West. There at least I could defend.

And I'm sure no one would choose the Old West to Rio de Janeiro, a city truly great for all types of crime.

The American Old West in Rio de Janeiro automatically lose your gun and your right to defend himself and his family, being totally exposed to the heavily armed criminals. If criminal assault case against his life, he of "unhappiness" got to remove the weapon from the attacker and kill him, would be immediately condemned by human rights groups are always ready to punish any citizen action that achieves eliminate a criminal.

are also broadcasters, who denounce any action against ruthless criminals, ensuring the security and "human rights" them.

In the West, there was equality. The robber was armed and fired. But all went well armed citizens. Citizens against armed criminals were armed.

In Rio de Janeiro, inequality is total. To the great delight of the bandits, they alone are armed. Criminals are armed to the teeth against a defenseless unarmed population, where the murderer feels like the fox loose in a henhouse. This chicken is called Rio de Janeiro. This chicken is also called Brazil.

While the murderers of Rio de Janeiro torture and kill innocent victim to achieve a ten percent return to the criminal is convicted of violating human rights. Thus, Rio de Janeiro has become a hell.

If the Old West would have been like Rio, it would have been hell for the innocent, and a wonderful place for murderers.

However, the Old West was not like Rio de Janeiro, so that the cowboys would say: Thank goodness we're not in Rio de Janeiro!

For the sake of justice and the innocent, I would say: What a pity that Rio de Janeiro is not like the Old West!

Note: This text was revised by a friend, whose ancestors lived in the Old West. For generations his family had firearms. He himself had an AK-47, but as a Christian I said you would use to defend themselves, but to defend their family and others. Brazilian citizens do not have permission to have an AK-47 or less powerful weapons. However, Brazilian criminals have weapons more powerful than an AK-47.

English Translated from Portuguese by Maria Valarini

Portuguese version: O Rio eo Velho West

English version of this article: Rio and the Old West

Source: www.julioseveroenespanol.blogspot.com

Going Blind From Shingles

Gibraltar: A rock-ethnic, multilingual and multi

The only land border crossing between Spain and Gibraltar, and the rock,
seen from the Andalusian town of La Línea de la Concepción.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

The name with you know The Rock (the Kalpa of the ancient Greeks), the British colony of southern Iberia, comes from the name given by the Arabs to the rock where it sits: Jabal Tariq (جبل طارق), "the mountain of Tariq", in honor of Tariq ibn Ziyad al-Layti (طارق بن زياد), the Berber chieftain who landed there with his troops in 711 and, according to tradition, led the conquest of Hispania Visigoths.

The history of this strategic peninsula 6.5 km ², situated east of the Algeciras Bay is well known, became part of Taifa de Granada, it was taken by, in 1309 the English troops, conquered by the benimerines at 1333, courtesy of the Nazari kingdom they de Granada twenty-four years later and finally conquered for the English Crown by the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1562, although until 1501 it was officially incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.

The Anglo-Dutch site that suffered the rock from 1 to 4 August 1704, during the War of English Succession, the Bourbon troops forced Philip V to capitulate to the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, who took possession of Gibraltar on behalf of the Archduke Charles of Austria, the pretender to the English crown.

A British Man of War Before
the Rock of Gibraltar ,
painting of the late eighteenth century,
the English artist Thomas Whitcombe.

After a failed site by English-French troops, under the treaty of Utrecht, which ended the war of succession in 1713 Gibraltar became a British possession, and remains a colony, although English frequent attempts to regain the territory.

When the passer visited Gibraltar, the first thing that surprised him, since the bus took a walk after passing the English-Gibraltar, was seeing how the short road leading to the city center has to cross the runway , which is closed by a barrier similar to that of the railway level crossing when a plane takes off or lands.

Upon reaching the city, then observed the curious contradictions that exist in that place, where Llanitos (name that are known Gibraltarians) retain a Castilian heterodox, with a strong Andalusian accent, while the official language is English colony, the language they are written almost all the labels (although in some cases appears bilingualism).

A typical bus
English in the city center of
Gibraltar, you can see
(
clicking on the photo to enlarge)
entries bilingual
in English and Castilian.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

is also inconsistent use of the coin, officially uses the British pound (that has even a local version issued by the Government of Gibraltar : the Gibraltar pound ), but the euro circulates alongside and often the prices are marked in both currencies. However, the European currency is not allowed in certain places, such as the post office.

A £ 20 note issued by the Gibraltar Government.

The passerby was able to observe further that the small town of Gibraltar, divided into seven residential areas and populated by little more than 27,000 people, is a multicultural and multi-very interesting in that the population mix local (Andalusian or Andalusian roots), a minority of British (mostly devoted to administrative tasks, commercial and government) and a relatively nourished Muslim communities (about 7% of the population) and Jewish (present in the rock since six hundred and fifty years, which, though currently only accounts for 2% of the population, has always been influential: it is estimated that in the local language, the Llanito , using a hundred words of Hebrew origin).



























Gibraltar
A Jewish boy with yarmulke property.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

door of a house in the Jewish community of Gibraltar
. may be the year of construction: 5655
Hebrew calendar, which corresponds
to 1895 from our Gregorian calendar.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

Muslim men coming out of one of their mosques in Gibraltar.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

The major religions, however, are the Anglican and Catholic churches, each of which has its cathedral and its temples. There are also temples of other Protestant communities, Hindus, Baha'is, etc.




























Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Holy Trinity),
Moorish style and architect unknown consecrated in 1838.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned,
raised in the site of an ancient mosque
. was consecrated on August 20, 1462.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

The Llanito Castilian dialect is a curious, very close to the Andalusian yet distinctive and eclectic. Expressions include not only Hebrew, but mostly Maltese and English words (many Maltese families settled in Gibraltar), Arabs, Berbers, Portuguese, Genoese and many languages \u200b\u200bof India, from where many traders.

Transient recalls, for example, that when he tried to go to Punta Europa, the bus driver told him (the transcription is phonetically approximate): "Vamo 'to see' if Podem yega that ehtd very windy time " in fact, the day was windy and it prevented the transient rise to the top of The Rock, Signal Hill (of 387 meters, where the famous Gibraltar monkeys), as the cable car on the access was not working that day because, precisely, the force of the wind, and taxi drivers-they-called hedge too much money to get you there.

Europa Point Lighthouse, built
between 1831 and 1841 and automated
in 1994.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

Punta Europa ( Great Europa Point, according to official British place names) is the southernmost tip of the peninsula of Gibraltar, facing north Africa, which is visible in the distance. This is a small rocky outcrop and plain, which include the lighthouse, the Mosque of Ibrahim al-Ibrahim (funded by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and opened on August 8, 1997) and the small Catholic shrine of Our Lady Europe.

The friendly bus driver who drove up there to the passer (the force of wind was so strong and the waves therefore, no longer invaded the esplanade as a few hours before), told him where I expect when the public service vehicle make the next trip. In return, we collected school, impeccably dressed in the uniforms of their respective schools. The local police also wear a uniform similar to that of London bobbies, with corresponding characteristic helmet (helmet). And, despite everything, in Gibraltar traditions clearly respond to the customs of the old British Empire, in many respects, the rock is a piece of the conservative United Kingdom transplanted to southern Europe.

A very British image in a very Mediterranean.
(Photo © Albert Lazaro Tinaut)

Do click on the photos to enlarge.

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Homolatria: VIP victims of violence in Brazil

Homolatria: Victims of violence VIP Brazil

Homosexuality is becoming more safeguard against impunity and police indifference.

Julius Severus

One dead in the street. The police have done their duty to make appropriate inquiries and reports crime case to the police commissioner, who asked: "Did the victim was gay?"

When the answer is negative, the commissioner said: "Throw this case to the statistics of over 50 thousand Brazilians killed each year."

That's not means that the police are fond of impunity. With tens of thousands of murders, it becomes difficult for the few policemen are poorly paid and poorly trained to solve many crimes. All that's left to do is address issues that are receiving increased attention from the media.

In 2007, Gabriel Kuhn child of 12 years was raped and dismembered, still alive, dying after hemorrhage after his legs were torn to hit Saw, but the case never reached prominence in the mainstream press. A common crime - rape, dismemberment and murder of a child - do not call the attention of the media as the case of a homosexual who suffers an attack.

The style is, because of pressure homolátrico movement, remove the dark cloud of indifference only those incidents where homosexuals suffer scratches, violence and murder - or, as often happens, those who simply felt offended. The PLC 122/06 [a project developed by Leye anti-"homophobia"] for example, to punish the perpetrator of a simple "offense" against homosexual practice with a penalty equal to that imposed on a child rapist.

In the classification of crimes, homosexual identity gives the victim the right to be treated with the same indifference with which they treat all the other victims.

The impunity that crimes against babies, children, girls, boys, girls, men and women lose their force when the victim is a practitioner of lewd acts privileged, as legislators, journalists, and human rights defenders have been placed practitioners of homosexuality in the category of individuals who deserve VIP treatment.

If you are gay, there are now offices specializing in "human rights", where personal attention. There's the gay hotline for use and abuse, may denounce as "homophobic" to the neighbor's dog for barking bothers incessant. If you are not gay, you need to join the crowd and into the long line of public attendance. After all, the profile of homosexuals is high and the most economically wealthy class can not be mixed with ordinary people. A mix well, only happens when the gay rich guy chases the boy or poor child to give gifts in return "of that."

However, homosexuals are not preferred targets of assassinations. If so, have tens of thousands of them die each year. Who are dying are the thousands of Brazilians common from 1980 to 2005, suffered the frightening astronomical figure, about 800 thousand murders. Then you ask: "But why I never heard of that?" Simple: they were not gay.

In the same period of 25 years, 2.511 homosexuals were killed, according to Gay Group information Bay, founded by Luiz Mott. This small number may also include episodes where the motive is the irrational passion of a lover of the victim. Besides that, is overpriced and very masked the death of homosexuals who attend, at dawn, at sites prone to drugs, prostitution and crime.

Although homosexual victims do not reach even 1% of the 800 thousand Brazilians killed, have become the main star of the "show." It is as if homosexuals were the victims amounting to 800 000, and all the other Brazilians not pass the two thousand killed.

Yearly 122 homosexuals were murdered, or one every three days, according to the statement of Mr. Luiz Mott. In sharp contrast, are killed each year 50 000 Brazilian, 414 every three days, or 138 per day. This means that the number of Brazilians killed per day is greater than the total number of homosexuals killed each year, indicating, in the words Solano Portela, that the best way to escape alive in Brazil become gay. "

Most are transvestites homosexuals killed, according to Oswaldo Braga, president of the Gay Movement of Mines, who said: "They are gay more involved in crimes such as prostitution and drug trafficking, being more exposed to violence. "(Tribuna de Minas , 03.09.2007, p. 3.)

is not clear why gay transvestites and others who choose by crime and prostitution environments do not suffer a greater number of murders. Could it be that now even the gangs are afraid of being accused of "homophobic"?

Attitudes of homosexual problem (for homosexual understand the man who gives or receives the penis in the anus) have become an integral part of the propaganda which he defines as "homocausto" (holocaust of homosexuals) the 122 homosexuals killed each year in Brazil. This homocausto sum, indeed, such a small percentage that clashes with the huge box of all Brazilians killed. But the greater reality is overcome by actually less, at the expense of the typical loud gay attitudes, as lies, intrigue, gossip and trouble sophistically masked in the language of propaganda.

With the pressure and oppression of Gaystapo in the media, what chance does the vast majority of victims (who are treated as citizens of the fifth category) against the "victim class?

The agenda homoletrina strip the truth on the ground and homolatria exalted above all and any statistical and social realities, succeeding at the point of screaming loud.

However, if homosexuals are actually 10% of the Brazilian population, as claimed by gay groups in Brazil, where are the 80 thousand dead gay? If they are only 5%, where are the 40 thousand dead gay? If they are only 1%, where are the 8 thousand dead?

With all the attention of the media in the small number of homosexual victims, impunity only tends to increase for all Brazilians, for greater attention and vigilance for homosexuals means less attention and supervision for all citizens.

crimes are now only protected impunity homolatria depending on the victim. "The attacked is gay? The guilty will be convicted and imprisoned without possibility of escape. "The victim is not gay? The police are too busy to investigate, giving the perpetrators the opportunity to have a moment of relief. It is the ideological stupidity penalty system. It is the privileging homolatria who worships the year.

Would you

a case of assault or murder in your area to receive attention from the press, politicians and police? In a society steeped in homoletrina, it remains to argue that the victim is gay. In the case of Gabriel Kuhn, raped and dismembered the child, his death would be remembered regularly in all TV channels and the Congress itself - if the knacker not have been homosexual. And there are thousands of other cases of child rape that does not become news in the screens of TV Globo and TV Record, just because the rapist is gay.

When the victim is gay, reflectors. The "cause" of crime is "homophobia" and point. Each case of "homophobia" becomes a reason for busy campaigning for laws to protect depraved class as if they were victims of first class.

When the criminal is gay, manipulation, falsification and concealment, safeguarding the homosexual practice of any dishonor. The "cause" of crime is a mystery! Guilt check everything and everyone except the so-called "sexual orientation."

homoletrina The agenda ensures VIP treatment for the homosexual victims and impunity for homosexuals who commit follies. Luiz Mott, the leader of the homosexual movement Brazil, is charged with defending pedophilia , while Denilson Lopes homosexual university professor has openly defended sex with children. Moreover, a Brazilian film openly promoted gay sex among children. In each of these cases, the authorities never intervened. However, if a priest or pastor say only 10% of what Mott and Lopes have said about sex with children, they'd be - and with much justice - prisoners and completely demoralized by newspaper reports in the magazine Veja to Rede Globo.

The widespread violence that plagues everyone in Brazil, homolatria ago all the difference in deciding which victims are to receive the treatment of movie stars and impunity which perpetrators gain.

English Translated from Portuguese by Maria Valarini

Portuguese version: Homolatria: As vitimas VIP da violência no Brasil

English version of this article: Homolatry: VIP Violence Victims in the pervasive in Brazil

Source: www.julioseveroenespanol.blogspot.com

The lie that asylum achieved

the day that sex between men and boys are no longer outrageous

Ortho Max Lawn & Garden Insect Killer

[Marginalia] The full verbal Carmen Vega

Sculpture Fais'Art Chemin, Gilles Perez, Chapdes
in Beaufort (Auvergne, France) .
(Photo © Ber'Colly / Flickriver, 2010)

The last time the passerby came to Madrid was to meet Clara Obligado in the creative writing workshop handling, in the Plaza del Angel, when it ended its educational task. She had said there and then go to dinner together in an excellent Argentine restaurant Mail Street and talk late into the night: the life and nostalgia, Argentina had to abandon when the military seized power and committed their egregious crimes against humanity, and more human than the divine.

Clara While clearing the large table in the workshop, which is both chair and desk, and picked cups, plates and remnants of candy with which his students (and is) had given away more pleasant to talk instructive literary, transient and leafing through leafing through a few books scattered on a shelf. Clara suddenly approached him and said, "Take this, you will like."

was a copy shrink wrap still Buñuel's knife, Carmen Vega .* When the bystander came home with a suitcase full, as always, new books and old, who had given Clara remained long in the pile of printed and bound that grows on the left side of his desk, until emerged suddenly, as if drawn by an unconscious foreboding, and this transient began to read, and could not leave until the climax, closed with a curious-and in this case nothing anachronistic- Nihil Obstat.

At times it is difficult to discern in the book, including the short story and poetry. The verb Carmen Vega (Pinos Puente, Granada, 1953), a woman who lives mainly in the film world, is fast, simple and elegant, and has the virtue of not showing at any moment the effort of brevity that often discovers the trap in the short story. Behind every story there is life experience and lots of sensitivity.

Carmen Vega.

is read at the fourth deck Buñuel's knife is the story of a journey, "a path that leads from the initial order for children to freedom, an unlikely journey from memory to desire, from a painful identity to the open spaces and frontier of a new identity and choice. " So the author proposes that succession of short stories, although the bystander believes that each of them has its own identity and be separated well in the set, which seems an added value. Although this is his first book, Carmen Vega has published stories in anthologies, and in 2003 won first prize Hiperbreves the Madrid Book Fair.

For the reader of this blog might enjoy the fullness of literary expression of Carmen Vega, transient plays two of his stories, which will surely drive more than one (or one) to order the book to your bookseller.

Thanks, Clara.


Undated As

K. Sören, not sick of inertia, I ran out crying in the pavilion used to snap my feet. The others, those was decided long ago stripped of everything, slept without dreams, depriving me of the words, burning my eyes with the lime of the violent colors. But still, when I wake up every morning, I can hear the rain fanning the land, the wind whipping the roof, the sound of the sun crushing the leaves of the trees. Even when awake, I can feel his face with his hands and put on my socks.


The friend

A small mast on the road, announces missing nearly three hundred miles to get anywhere. I drive slowly, with the landscape nothing surprises me. I glide along the carpet Granite looking for a way to comfort me. In the case I just, in memory than necessary.

In the distance, a man beckons me. Stop the car. He sits next to me. I hear your breathing, your body warms me, his voice steals mine. I hold my leaving half with yours.

step on the gas. The road disappears. The dense powder is mixed with fire. sounds on the radio Stand by Me.


* Carmen Vega
Buñuel's knife
Watcher Notebooks, Granada, 2008

60 pages ISBN: 978-84-95430-30-4

Ls Models Abreviations

The All Saints Day: death as an object of worship and celebration (with Mexico on the horizon)

La Calavera Catrina Garbancera or as an illustration of 1913
cartoonist Mexican Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913).
La Catrina, thus named by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, is an ironic metaphor
high social class before the Mexican Revolution, and ended
becoming the symbol of death on the Day of the Dead.

The ancient Christian celebration to honor the dead is rooted in the persecution of followers of Christ by the Roman emperors, persecutions reached the climax in the fourth century, under Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius and Constantius. The canard that Christians practiced black magic, cannibalism and incest did say the historian and politician Tacitus (55-120) in the spirit of these nests the odium generis humani (I hate the human race).

Detail of the reliefs of the sarcophagus
Paleochristian San Justo de la Vega

representing the persecution of early Christians.
(© National Archaeological Museum, Madrid)

The early Church, the victim of such persecution, felt a duty to honor their martyrs, and by that time established the Sunday before the feast of Pentecost as a day for reverence to the victims of imperial edicts, which would soon elevated to the status of saints. It was Pope Gregory III in the eighth century, who established the deadline of 1 November as All Saints Day, and gave them a chapel at the ancient basilica of St. Peter's in Rome.

In recent decades, this event has been declining replaced in many countries, especially the American Halloween, "while others pointed out is a special day. This happens in Mexico, whose famous Day of the Dead, which UNESCO declared the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (along with other Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the dead, behold here) is just updating an old pre-holiday Christianization.

Transient recently recovered a book he admired Octavio Paz, who had read years ago, a book that the author devotes particular attention to the mexicanidad: The Labyrinth of Solitude .* His third chapter, "All Saints Day of the Dead" aims, precisely, to explain the reasons for this event that transcends the Mexican Christian tradition.

"The solitary Mexican loves fiestas and public meetings. Everything is an opportunity to meet. Any excuse is good for pir interrupted the march of time and celebrate with feasts and ceremonies men and events "" says Paz, and continuing. "We are a village ritual. And that trend benefits our imagination as much as our sensibilities, always tuned and alert. The Art of the Party, reviled almost everywhere, is preserved intact among us. "

Octavio Paz.

And some pages later falls squarely, with his admirable literary style, in the conclusion to which now covers the passer: "Death is a mirror that reflects the empty gestures of life. All that motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and tentative-works and leftovers, which is every life, in death as no meaning or explanation purpose. Facing her life is drawn and immobilized. Before crumble and sink into nothingness, becomes immutable form sculpted and no longer changes but to disappear. [...] To the ancient Mexicans opposition between death and life was not as absolute as for us. Prolonging life in death. And vice versa. The death was not the natural order of life but an endless cycle phase. Life, death and resurrection were stages of a cosmic process, repeated insatiable. "

And then, after some considerations about it and linked with the Christianization of the Mexicans, insists on the validity of those old beliefs: "The Mexican's indifference to death is nourished by its indifference to life. The Mexicans not only postulates the irrelevance of dying, but of the living. Our songs proverbs, folk festivals and thoughts expressed in an unmistakable way that death does not frighten us because 'life has cured us of ghosts. " Dying is natural and even desirable, the sooner the better. Our indifference to death is the other face of our indifference to life. Kill for life, ours and others, is worthless. It is natural that this happens: life and death are inseparable and each time that the first loses significance, the second becomes irrelevant. Mexican death is the mirror of life of Mexicans. To both the Mexican closes, ignore them.

Mexico: Patria y Muerte ,
Photo of Joseph Michaels.
(© Flickr)

Contempt of death is not at odds with the cult that you profess. She is present at our parties, our games, our loves and our thoughts. Dying and killing are ideas that rarely leave us. Death seduces us. The fascination exerted on us perhaps our brother outbreak metismo and fury with which we break [...].

Moreover, death will come to life, stripped of all its vanities and pretensions and became what it is: bones picked clean and a ghastly grin. Is a closed world with no way out, where everything is death the only valuable is death. But we say something negative. Sugar skulls China paper skeletons colorful fireworks, our performances are always popular mockery of life, an affirmation of the nothingness and insignificance of human existence. We decorate our homes with skulls, eating the day of the Dead bread and bones pretending songs and jokes entertain us in the death laughing bald, but all of that boastful familiarity does not exempt us from the question we all ask: what is the death? We have not invented a new response. "

sugar skulls decorated
one of the characteristics of
Day of the Dead in Mexico.
(Source: http://www.taringa.net/posts/info
/ 3832239/El-Dia-De-Los-Muertos.html)

Al passerby, these considerations about idiosyncrasies of the Mexican people make you reflect on the meaning of violent deaths that occur in Mexico, of which almost daily realize the media. Do you have anything to do with that indifference to the death referred to by Octavio Paz, or is it something alien to it, a simple and ordinary crime linked to trafficking diverse and opposing clans? In any case, the words of the Mexican writer seem significant to understand certain attitudes, or at least try. Few like him have gone so deep into the Mexican soul.


* Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude . Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica, second edition, revised and enlarged, 1959. The issue that has driven the passer is the ninth reprint, 1981.