The Mexican Autumn

The Mexican Autumn

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

Philip K. Dick

By: Erreh Svaia

First thing that came to my mind when Jaime Rodriguez mentioned the Arab Spring as a reference when it came to his desire to lead, according to his own words a "Mexican Spring", the truth is that at that moment I wasn't sure about laughing or getting mad about it.

How cheap and ignorant was that single! What can you expect from such a character speaking in such a way so full of vanity and craziness, totally out of reality? No, he wasn't Andrés Manuel López, it was the once Part of the PRI, now turned "independent candidate" ex major of Garcia, Nuevo Leon, in Mexico, a very small city not so much integrated with the metropolitan area of Monterrey with still small town looks and with lots of unpaved streets although Rodriguez "revolutionary" turn as major.

A lot can be said in a romantic and idealistic way about the Arab Spring, how the people got together using social networks in order to dethrone dictators like Gaddafi in Libya, or Mubarak in Egypt, but has someone asked why this didn't happen in Saudi Arabia or in Turkey, unconditionally allies of the U.S.A.? Iraq, Yemen and Libya are sadly clear examples of what type of "winds of change" the Spring really brought, today these countries have no law or order and chaos reign supreme, in a way that ironically the people start to miss the old "order" established by the old fallen dictators, Egypt? They dethroned a dictatorship just to fall in the trap of religious fundamentalism and then latter another military dictatorship.

Let’s hope that the Spring ignorantly proposed by Rodriguez for Mexico ends up in a really different way from the Middle East Spring, because manipulation of society via the social networks, false independence, justice and freedom promises and the ideal to dethrone an unfair government could end up bringing us the opposite of Spring, a decadent Autumn in Nuevo Leon in which all hope to beat the bad guys dies when it happens that we end up again with the same old bad guys.

The Arab Spring ended up as cold winter that brought horrors like the Islamic State and left society weakened and immersed in despair and instability willing to accept even worst conditions that the ones they were against first place.

It is not about opposing change, we must always embrace change because it’s a constant in our lives, but we shouldn't accept magic solutions, all mighty superheroes, or fast track solutions without very strict survey, democracy is just not about voting to defeat a bad government, its about remain vigilant with the next government and be sure that it will fulfill its promises.

What will our Mexican Autumn bring to us?