La pobreza extrema en Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.

Esto es una parte de una entrevista que hice a un habitante de la colonia Bruno Alvarez, en el poniente de la supuestamente exitosa ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.

Seguir sufriendo - pobreza en Nuevo Laredo.



A pesar de lo que dicen los gobernantes de Nuevo Laredo, personas notables y demas adefecios de la sociedad fronteriza, sus mentiras se derrumban tan solo con darse una vuelta por esta ciudad de contrastes. Lo grave de este asunto es que por un lado la gente se llegue a tragar las mentiras sistematicas que se han bombardeado entre la ciudadania de Nuevo Laredo. Y por otro lado, es altamente preocupante que los medios de comunicacion en Nuevo Laredo sirvan de tapaderas de aquellos en el poder para engañar a la pobre gente. Airecable canal 29, Televisa canal 57, periodicos y revistillas de pacotilla han estado sospechosamente del lado del poder cual secuaces intrigantes en este drama en Nuevo Laredo.

Porque los medios anteriormente citados no han tenido los huevos para mostrar lo que aqui les muestro yo? Acaso en verdad nos hemos convertido en una Republica Spotera, en la cual los "spots" comerciales dominan los medios, y por ende, la busqueda de la verdad para el pueblo. Vean por ejemplo lo que hacen periodicos como El Mañana, Primera Hora, y el Diario, donde alguna vez you escribia mis columnas. Dichos periodicos se han volcado por dos temas en Nuevo Laredo, la violencia sangrienta exagerada (el amarillismo) y la lambisconeria con las altas esferas del poder o los partidos politicos.

La maxima del periodista es la busqueda de la verdad, y mostrarle la verdad al pueblo de manera fiel, integra, equilibrada, y justa. Todos los periodicos, El Mañana, El Diario, Primera Hora, y la television, Airecable canal 29, Televisa canal 57, y los demas, se han restregado por sus huevos esta hermosa maxima del periodismo. Los trabajadores, que por cierto no tienen velo en el entierro, podran excusarse (los que puedan) de que ellos reciben la linea editorial de parte de los dueños, editores, o directores. Aqui la culpa es de todos si nos vamos desde un punto de vista racional Kantista, en el que todos jalan agua para su molino. Pero especialmente de aquellos encargados de cada estacion televisiva y cada publicacion periodica. Mezquinamente estan mas interesados en sus propios intereses, sean aquellos pecuniarios (para centavearse una lana), partidocratico (para quedar bien con su partido), o intereses politicos (como aquellos que nos restriegan su jeta en todos lados para algun puesto politico).

Acaso no tienen tiempo de darse la vuelta por esta ciudad corroida por la miseria y el abandono? Es posible que no, pues estan mas calientes con sus puestazos que les puedan dar el alcalde de Nuevo Laredo o de Ciudad Victoria. Los medios tienen la OBLIGACION de fungir como perros guardianes de lo que sucede en la comunidad. Los medios en Nuevo Laredo se pasan dicha obligacion por el arco del triunfo. Ellos son LOS RESPONSABLES de que el pueblo este enterado de la VERDAD que sucede en Nuevo Laredo. Aqui, en Nuevo Laredo, los medios se callan el nivel de pobreza que vive la gente. Que acaso eso no es noticioso? Que acaso eso no es digno para esa pinche gente de pipa y guante de publicar en sus mediocres medios? Ah, pero la vida es un tanto rara, pues no sean sus hermosas hijas o esbeltas esposas las que fuesen violadas o asesinadas en aquellos desoladas parajes de las afueras de Nuevo Laredo. Entonces si, lanzarian una cruzada para encontrar a los responsables. Y posters aqui, y avisos por aca, y entrevistas a los mandos policiacas, etc. Pero como no es su familia, como no son sus amigos o compadres, a no, ahi si no... "pinche gente naca, que se arreglen ellos como puedan" dirian los medios de comunicacion neolaredenses.

Aqui les muestro este video, un tanto corto, como muestra del drama infernal que se esta viviendo en esta "maravillosa" ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. De buenas que vivimos en tiempos de la Internet, en donde es el ultimo reducto de libertad. De haber sido veinte años antes, la gente nunca se enteraria del drama en Nuevo Laredo. Los medios de comunicacion tienen sangre en sus manos, pero aqui les muestro tan solo un pedacito de ese drama.

Yacanex - His rebellion against civilization

Yacanex was one of the principal Chichimec leaders in Tepetlaoztoc. The high ruler of all the Chichimecatlalli was Xolotl the Great. Now, Xolotl was marrying his daughers and grandsons with Toltec peoples who were already established even before Quetzalcoatl. This created Xolotl to have numerous great grandsons, and great-great grandsons becoming military captains, rulers, and chiefs all over the Chichimecatlalli (from Toluca to Veracruz).

Now, Xolotl's descendants as well as he himself became acculturated by Toltecs and indigenous peoples who were living there for many centuries. So they adapted their nomadic way of living to a sedentary one, with agriculture and city development being imposed by Xolotl to all his peoples.

All Chichimec rulers did the same as Xolotl. But Yacanex didn't accept the new ways of doing things. He wanted hunting and gathering to be continued as part of their lives. Yacanex was not alone, many followed him. All of Tepetlaoztoc rebelled against the government, and started setting in flames a great deal of crops and fields.

One of the liutenants of Yacanex was Ocotoch. Now Ocotoch was originally at the service of Nopaltzin (Xolotl's son) at Huexotla. But when Nopaltzin and his son Tlotzin Pochotl ordered fencing fields and forrests for purpose of having animals and protected forrest areas, he also rebelled and joined Yacanex's forces.

Although the real intention of Yacanex revolution wasn't because of anger against civilization, it was an ideal he later followed so strongly, that Chichimecs kept following him as far as Tollantzinco (Tulancingo).

The real motive for Yacanex to rebel was because Huetzin, the great-great-grandson of Xolotl and descendant of Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, was to marry a gorgeous woman from Colhuacan named Atotoztli. Both parents of Huetzin and Atotoltzin accepted the marriaged under Nopaltzin's terms (because it was he who suggested it).

Colhuacan, a remnant of the once powerful Triple Alliance with Tula and Coatlinchan, did not want to make angry the Chichimecs. Especially because Nopaltzin was the one who battled and killed Nauhyotzin. Yacanex went to the very steps of Colhuacan, and asked for Atotoztli. His parent denied her hand, while Colhua warriors helped Atotoztli flee the city.

In Tenayocan, the Chichimec high capital, General Tochintecuhtli was dispatched to destroy Yacanex. Chichimecs were wary that Yacanex rebellion was getting so popular among the common people. No Chichimec wanted to embrace civilization. Yacanex believed that there was no reason to be integrated to a economy-based system if they could very well keep living as they had for thousands of years in Northern Mexico and Southern US. Why change that so suddenly because their rulers in Tenayocan were amazed by Toltec culture and their socio-economical system. So Yacanex and Ocotoch resisted influence of having to be devoured by civilization in order to become peasants with duties with the state and a calpulli. They refused that.

Tochintecuhtli mustered a huge army at Huexotla, the gates of Texcoco. There they waited for the return of Yacanex. The rebel army was coming out of Colhuacan toward Tepetlaoztoc. Huexotla was in the middle of the way.

There, at the Battle of Huexotla, Yacanex battled for his right to remain out of the system, out of "civilization". The battle was fierce, but eventually Yacanex and Ocotoch fled towards the Iztaccihuatl volcano. There, Tochintecuhtli lost track of him in the labirinthic snowy slopes of the volcano. Yacanex went to a region between Tulancingo and Tampico, called today the Huasteca. There he remained, mustering more people, but living in harmony with nature and free from any reins and duties a social contract was therein.

Time passed. Many years. Quinatzin was the heir of Tlotzin Pochotl as ruler of the Chichimecatlalli, now reduced to what was later known as Acolhuacan in Mexica times. Quinatzin moved his capital from Tenayocan to Catlenihco, which Chichimecs named it Texcoco.

Quinatzin continued to create laws for peasant lands as well as for the cities. He established parameters for who was able to hunt, when, and where. The state became more strong, and Nahuatl was seriously put as the language to be educated on. This created sentiments that brought up the return of Yacanex to the lakes area.

This time, Yacanex was not alone. He had the support of four out of five children of Quinatzin, as well as Quinatzin's wife. Chichimecs were really divided as to follow either civilization or their traditional life. The result was a bloody war. The carnage was so immense, that still today there are stories of little red shrimps living in that area of becoming red because of the blood rivers created after the war. This is known as the War of Poyauhtlan.

Quinatzin divided his army into four. Surrounded Texcoco, which was taken by Yacanex, and all at the same time pushed in to destroy him. Yacanex fled to Poyauhtlan, which was were the biggest battle was fought.

Yacanex died that day. And since that day, Quinatzin was known as Quinatzin "Tlaltecatzin" (the one who flattens the earth). The four children and wife of Quinatzin were pardoned, but were forced to shamefully leave forever Texcoco. They went across the volcanoes, and were the founders of the four Tlaxcalteca capitals. A new nation was born Tlaxcala.

The ideals of Yacanex are interesting of noting, especially in these days were governments wants us to tell us what "civilization" is and does.