Violence: yesterday and today - to be continued

The violence that has occurred here in this beautiful place is the more than unspeakable violence.

What is happening today with gangs and men trained to be killers and those involved in the drug trade, is horrific, very sad, and again, as always, the perfect rich peaceful u.s. is at the bottom of it all.

1.7 MILLION farmers lost their farms within 2 years of NAFTA bringing into México u.s. mega-farmers and mega farm produce. Not to mention the tons of chemicals, machinery, etc. that goes hand-in-hand with horrific mega-farming.

 If each farm here had an average of 10 people working, that’s over 17 MILLION people with no means to support themselves.  And it’s probably more considering all the jobs growing food supports – not to mention all the life.

But it is drug users in the u.s. that are buying these drugs with little concern about the people who are dying in order to get them their drugs. As usual – who cares what it costs other people, as long as we have a ‘cheap’ source of whatever we need.

And we sell the glories of our lifestyle with more zeal and illness than the early priests sold christianity, if that’s possible.

When will we realize there is no way we can live the way we do in the states without hurting a whole lot of people?

But the violence here began almost 500 years ago when Spaniards came to this place where people have been co-existing for over 10,000 years. Within a couple of years, Europeans again perfected the destruction of a people.

I read that the people here organized their communities in a circle around the library/sacred building that was home to not just their sacred objects of thousands of years, but the sacred people/leaders.

The first thing the Spanish did was to destroy these centers of culture and life, and to murder the spiritual leaders. Of course the priests worked hand-in-hand with the soldiers.

Although eventually at least one priest, hilgado put out the call for the people to rebel. He must have been like the Iraq veterans against war, who participate ignorantly but maybe idealistically in genocide and then realize the horrific mistake they’ve made.

But such a disregard for human life, no a blatant cruelty and ability to destroy human life – and now most people still have that gene in them, or if not the gene then the memory of that destruction.

And they certainly have the benefits and detriments of that destruction to varying degrees, depending on how close they are to conquistador blood.