Más debate, menos guerra sucia

Tanto la oferta política como las actitudes ciudadanas

son ya representativas de la civilización de lo ligero.

Gilles Lipovetsky.

Por Óscar Cuevas

Las campañas electorales mexicanas han estado siempre carentes de un diálogo real entre opositores y ciudadanía. Es urgente que la campaña federal de 2018 sea un modelo a seguir. La ciudadanía quiere debate no canciones ni guerra sucia. La responsabilidad es tuya, candidato. 

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Yes… Mexico is a racist country

By Juan Carlos Finck Carrales 

According to recent official statistics, in Mexico there is a relation between people’s privileges and their skin color: The lighter, the more privilege.

However, social exclusion by racist practices in Mexico has been common practically since its Spanish conquest between 1519 and 1521, in which privileges where absorbed and monopolized by European settlers in Mexico (Spanish people: peninsulares) and their descendants (creole: criollos).

As a consequence, currently in Mexico, the color of skin affects people’s economic and political privileges and powers in individual and social levels related to their class, gender, culture, geographical position, etc. Seguir leyendo