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Season's Greetings
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December 25, 2009
This is not the gentlest Christmas Season.
Mexico faces a number of economic, moral and criminal issues which have developed over the past decade of National Action Party (PAN) governments, and Mexicans see no end to it.
First, of course, this was a year in which the economy nearly crumbled in the hands of the Administration with a final tally of a 7.8 percent fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), one of the worst performing economies in the world.
On the moral side, the powerful Catholic Church is tearing its clothes in sorrow and beating its chest in purity because Mexico City has approved gay marriages, including allowing the adoption of children.
Certainly Cardinal Norberto Rivera and Bishop Onésimo Cepeda of Ecatepec have forgotten the church's own quagmire with gay priests.
Priests want to preserve the essence of heterosexual Catholic families unscathed.
At least, these two issues lend themselves to discussion.
The third is the open war threat drug cartels are making after they killed the unarmed family of a marine who fell fighting an infamous and bloody drug lord.
Read this message as a warning to Mexico's 190,000-member armed forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) who may be directly involved in this war. The warning is that combatants will not be victims: their families will.
Hopefully, 2010 will bring new perspectives and enlighten Felipe Calderón with wisdom.
He will need it to have the nation survive. |
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