It is Constitution Day and well, really, not everything is going perfectly.
From
oregonlive
The first Monday in February is a major public holiday in Mexico,
Constitution Day. It commemorates the day in early February of 1917
when the Constitutional Convention of Queretero completed and approved
the country's post-revolutionary document, still in effect today.
As here in the 1780s, the men who wrote the 1917 Mexican Constitution
were seeking to embody the principles and gains fought for during the
Revolution of 1910. Unlike here, the Mexican revolution involved deep
social, economic, and cultural issues, and the resulting Constitution
shows that. It was the first of the 20th-century Constitutions to go
beyond merely governmental structure.
Land and labor had been two of the driving forces beyond the
disparate groups who had united to overthrow Porfirio Diaz's
presidential dictatorship. Articles in the new constitution called for
illegally seized land to be returned to peasant communities. Ownership
of land would henceforth be subject to limitations in the public
interest. Labor could organize and bargain collectively, and strike.
A cultural issue still hanging over from the 19th century produced
strong anti-clerical provisions aimed at what some felt was the
excessive and malevolent power of the Catholic Church, the religion of
most Mexicans. These articles would produce tragically deadly conflicts
during the 1920s, but by the 1940s much of the anti-clerical animus
died down, and on his several visits after 1980, Pope John Paul II could
hail "Mexico, siempre fiel!"
Party of Institutional Repression? Ouch!
Really, things are not going well if one believes
this recent editorial.
For decades, if not centuries, Oaxaca does not advance, and not only that, all indications are that it goes backwards. Each new term of Government political and social matters are worse. Each State Government leaves a larger debt, doubled, maybe tripled by the current. But not only in the political power in all matters Oaxaca goes back.Oaxaca this week was new note of national scandal, news of the red note call of which we are so prolific; new medical malpractice which add to the large number of them; died in early lawsuits between CTM and CNP, quasi construction mafias; attacks sent assassins to close streets, attacking the historic, extort money from motorists to let them pass.
It goes on for quite a screed and it worth clicking and translating.... or just go on by.
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