09-11-2014, 03:55 PM
While the mayor and his wife were finally arrested with a few others who admitted to killing the students it is far from the justice which is needed. The underlying corruption is untouched and the big fish still swim. Now the state government palace has been torched by those protesting the murder of the students. Mexico is actually on the brink of revolution. Not sure if the students death will be the trigger. There are many simmering resentments in Mexican society but their deaths have triggered a huge response from a normally frightened and apathetically resigned populace.
An interesting film I saw recently and not unrelated to the death of the students and the role of corruption caused by illegal drugs is Narco Cultura http://narcoculture.com/ It is in English and gives a look into the Mexican songs, narcocorridos, which glorify the Narcos Drug Lord as some sort of Robin Hood (they are nothing like him but that is what some think) and the 'respectable' businesses which seek to capitalize on it but it is a lot more than that too. It looks at the lives of some who live in Juarez City on US border with El Paso on the US side and how they live with the drug war on the front line. Terrifying, sad, infuriating, tragic, human. It is on Netflix.
An interesting film I saw recently and not unrelated to the death of the students and the role of corruption caused by illegal drugs is Narco Cultura http://narcoculture.com/ It is in English and gives a look into the Mexican songs, narcocorridos, which glorify the Narcos Drug Lord as some sort of Robin Hood (they are nothing like him but that is what some think) and the 'respectable' businesses which seek to capitalize on it but it is a lot more than that too. It looks at the lives of some who live in Juarez City on US border with El Paso on the US side and how they live with the drug war on the front line. Terrifying, sad, infuriating, tragic, human. It is on Netflix.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.