Reflecting on the events...

I think I am going to let the photos speak for themselves. 

The past couple weeks have been bittersweet in a way.  The streets have been regained.  But at what price?  Just as easy as it is to proclaim radical ideas without ever living the consequences, is to clamour for government intervention.  I can´t forget the pyschological desperate days of the past month.  Of wondering...will I get through town?  How will we get home?  Is there going to be money?  

I refuse to accept that the teachers have a valid fight.  But it is now bigger than that.  It has become an avalanche for every anti-government organization.For every radical and revolutionary post.  Is Morelos the best staging ground?  I don´t think so, but then again my assessment might be askewed since I am a resident of the city.  

Every voice does have the right to be heard, federal force is just as awful and brutal as some of the elements it is used against.  Who´s fight is this?  What are they fighting for?  It is now a sea of anti government protests with no general goal.  Octavio Paz was quoted as saying that Mexico is like a teenager who refuses to grow up.  He held that Mexico was intent on denying its true heritage, that its evolution was retarded by repeated cycles of conquest, violation, and revolution.  Over the past 10 years we have focused on the fact that maybe...just maybe Mexico can move from its adolesence to true democratic adulthood.  The events of the past months has made me wonder if the analysis was realistic or just wishful thinking.  Was the acceptance of the PAN the first step toward true and open democracy...or just another phase of the cycle.  Era after era of Mexican history supports Paz's claim.  What sort of history am I living?  I don´t know.  Everytime my mind tries to form a path to justify one of the arguments, immediately the strenght of the other pops up.  As I asked my students....where is Mexico's path to the future?  Does it go with the pack and strive to be a developed nation following capitalistic development?  Or is it necessary to blaze a new and unique path...that fits the unique character that Mexican citizens and residents live as a daily reality.  In this case I lean toward the second.  Mexican social, political, and economic reality is neither truly developed or developing.  Will this country ever realize its full potential?  At this moment, sadly I doubt it.  Unless the society goes through a phase of soul searching, and honest reflection it will never find its strengths and weakness.  The beauty of Mexico is its uniqueness.  The strength of Mexico is found in the core of its unique blend of characters.  But instead of re-evaluating to find this strength, I worry that the country is in .nothing more than cyclic stagnation