No more Blood!!

There is a magazine that I enjoy Reading very much called “El Chamuco” it criticizes the government through funny cartoons and what I like the most is that it gives you a different perception of the political problems happening in México and it helps you understand a lot more the political issues that our country is facing right now.

A famous  Mexican political caricaturist called Eduardo del Río, pseudonym  Rius, started along with many other caricaturists in January 10 2011 a new campaign called “Basta de Sangre”, they ask every Mexican citizen to write the phrase “Basta de sangre” or “No mas sangre” in a piece of paper and paste them on a visible place. The objective is to   create a citizen movement for stopping the violence that our country is facing which has left a debt of more than 30, 000 deaths.

Organizing

Yes oraganizin is quite a deal, in fact organizing my time and lazinnes are my main issues, this week i ve had slept almost evreyday like at 1 :00 am finishing homeworks but the thing is that those were assigned to me like 2 weeks before and as always i have to leave everything for the very last minute. An rightt now i am so sleepy that i justa can't write anymore
Things to do:
Find an effective way of organizing my time
Start analizing what my priorities are
Shake off Lazyness

Something about Health

The past week I have had an annoying pain in the lower parts of my neck I think they might be swollen but I try not to think about that because this weekend I expect it to be very fun so I CAN'T get sick not at all! But well this week I have been seeing many things about health. In fact I consider that emotional and physical health are the key for having a good and prosperous life, because let’s face it without health you simply cannot enjoy anything because HEALTH IS ALL YOU NEED (sorry Beatles but I think that it is health, love too but without health again I repeat you are not fully allowed to enjoy the plenty of love). You might wander why have I seen so many thing abouthealh this week, well in Biology class we have this new project that consists in promoting something that is good for your health, in my case my subject was drinking water, I had to manage how to convince people for them to drink 2 liters of Water a dy besides all the water that there is in the food that we eat in a daily basis.

In conclusion Health rocks and all you have todo for having a good health is excersise, dirnk water and eat in a correct way.

How about that?

 Here is another article that i got from the new york time one of the best known newspaper in the wole world.

Although Mexico has been a producer and transit route for illegal drugs for generations, the country now finds itself in a pitched battle with powerful and well-financed drug cartels.
The government says more than 34,600 have been killed in the four years since President Felipe Calderón took office and threw the federal police and military at the cartels, with the toll for 2010, 15,237, the heaviest yet.
Mexican and American officials, crediting American training of the military and what they consider to be an increasingly professional federal police force, point out that more than half of the 37 most wanted crime bosses announced last year have been captured or killed. The government also maintains that the last quarter of 2010 showed a decline in the pace of killings.
But the public does not seem to believe it. A poll released Jan. 11 by Mexico’s national statistics institute found that more than 70 percent of respondents believed the country’s security had worsened since 2009.
Both Mexican and American officials, who say the two countries have never worked closer in fighting crime, are facing growing pressure to prove that their strategy is working. With Republicans now in control of the House, the Obama administration will face renewed scrutiny to account for the $1.4 billion, multiyear Merida Initiative, the cornerstone of American aid in Mexico’s drug fight.
The violence has in some cases spilled over the border and become a source of mounting concern in states in the Southwest. And in June 2010 a Justice Department report described a "high and increasing" availability of methamphetamine mainly because of large-scale drug production in Mexico.
In October 2010, the government announced that it was preparing a plan to radically alter the nation’s police forces, hoping not only to instill a trust the public has never had in them but also to choke off a critical source of manpower for organized crime. It would all but do away with the nation’s 2,200 local police departments and place their duties under a “unified command.”

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/mexico/drug_trafficking/index.html?scp=3&sq=drugs&st=cse
 
I am tired of this, Mexico just to be catalogued by many ignorant americans as an uncivilezed country, poor and etc but now it is not only going to be catalogued as that it is now going to be one of the ost insecure countries in the world.

The Merida Initiative

The Merida Initiative

Fact Sheet

Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

June 23, 2009

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The Merida Initiative demonstrates the United States’ commitment to partner with governments in Mexico, Central America, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic to confront criminal organizations whose actions plague the region and spill over into the United States.
The Initiative’s Scope
The Merida Initiative is a multi-year program to provide equipment and training to support law enforcement operations and technical assistance for long-term reform and oversight of security agencies. In 2008, Congress approved an initial $400 million for Mexico and $65 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. In 2009, Congress approved $300 million for Mexico and $110 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. In 2010, $450 million for Mexico and $100 million for Central America has been requested from Congress.
U.S. Domestic Efforts
The Merida Initiative complements U.S. domestic efforts to reduce drug demand, stop the flow of arms and weapons, and confront gangs and criminal organizations. The initiative also complements broader efforts by the Governments of Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti to engage on every front in the battle against organized crime.
A Shared Responsibility
Daily developments in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti demonstrate the urgent need for action. Criminal organizations, under great pressure by law enforcement agencies, are behaving in increasingly violent ways. Our partners in the region are confronting transnational gangs and criminal organizations at great personal and financial costs. It is in the national security interest of the United States to support our partners’ fight against this scourge, prevent further violence from spilling over our border, and make our streets safe once again from drug and gang-related crime. They are doing their part--we must do ours.
Components
The Merida Initiative will provide funding for:

• Non-intrusive inspection equipment, ion scanners and canine units for Mexico and Central America to interdict trafficked drugs, arms, cash, and persons.
  
• Technologies to improve and secure communications systems that collect criminal information in Mexico.
  
• Technical advice and training to strengthen the institutions of justice--vetting for the new police force, case management software to track investigations through the system, new offices of citizen complaints and professional responsibility, and witness protection programs to Mexico.
  
• Helicopters and surveillance aircraft to support interdiction activities and rapid response of law enforcement agencies to Mexico.
  
• Equipment, training, and community action programs in Central American countries to implement anti-gang measures and expand the reach of these measures.

A Common Future
By workingtoo collaboratively with Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti we confront this regional threat with a regional solution, and undermine the ability of criminal organizations to adapt their behaviors and evade justice.

http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/fs/122397.htm


Comment:
I think the Merida Initiative is very good but hey USA a here is the real thing! Mexico is too corrupt, i really do not believe that this will work as they are planning to sadly inside the same government we have the actual drugdealears. But in spite of waht i just said i am really tired of this situation inocent people are diyeing and the deth rate in Mexico has increased real bad i just want this to be over!

The performer's version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Julliet"

The Performers version of Shakespeare‘s “Romeo and Julliet”

Every year the school takes us to a play performed by an Argentinean theater group called “The Performers”. This year’s play was a shorten version of Romeo and Julliet.

The play lasted one hour, the setting consisted on a wooden background painted as a balcony, it had two sides on the end which could be folded and simulated as a church and a room. The lightning was good it changed according to the mood the play wanted to give and the clothing was  based on the times of Queen Elizabeth.  The acting and the sharing of the parts was divides I 4 actors a long the play the only ones that neve changed role were Romeo and Julliet but the guy who played the priest also played Tybalt and Lord Capulet and the  woman  who had the Nurse’s role also made as Lady Capulet .

The acting was very exaggerated, and the adaptation of the play was awful they cutted out important parts of the original play and mixed it up with singing. The thing that made me dislike even more the play was the fact that it not represented Mercutio’s monologue which is one of the best lines y in the play.  I also think that we are too old for going to those kinds of plays I would’ve liked it better if they had made it more serious and directed for people over 15 years old leaving out the singing.

Three sad but true words

Racism, Prejudice and Discrimination three horrible but common words,   sadly every human has been a victim of these three throughout his or her life and worst of all had been the creators of these 3 despicable actions making another human feel less than the other.

Sadly we all humans have been discriminated, prejudged or  a victim of a racism act throughout our whole lives  and even worst   the cause or an accomplice of these three despicable actions. All the wars that have been made in history  are big cases of discrimination not only are for gaining an economic power but they are for making a  human feel superior that another through blood shedding and sadness.  We humans discriminate other humans that is the ugly truth. Unfortunately we  discriminate unconsciously, it is a scientific fact that a person gives a better treatment to  the person with  better looks than to the ungracious one.  Dismally what everyone wants; is to feel part of something to fit into this complex society, not a single human being wants to be completely alone

I am  seventeen years old and I can assure you that I have been a victim of all of these three things in more than one time , whether because of my hair, my skin color, raze,  nationality, or worst because of my  way of thinking. Especially at my age, when we start defying our social groups and identity, you can go walking on the street and people will judge you immediately by the way you dressed (specially the trademark), the way you look (your race) and right away without even sharing one single word with you they will prejudge you in a very strong and mean way.  It is very hard to find someone with an actually open mind which is doleful  since these three thing are the cause of a dreadful world full of hatred, sorrow, violence , dsifunctionality, wars, killings and just because of money and the same hate between a human and another.

Take a look in the mirror, what do you think about yourself? Do you think you have enough confidence to go outside and face this scary world? Do you love yourself? Well I don’t think you love yourself as much as you think you do, because if oyu loved yourself you would’nt go aroud discriminating and prejudging everyone because for loving someone else you fisrt have to actually love yourself. As a result of I assume that not all human beings are capable to love.