Open Letter public Javier Sicilia
May 18, 2011.
Summary.
The peace movement has received justice and dignity and not to confront questions that would put at risk due moral authority, representativeness and independence.
Outside the natural direction of movement, Javier Sicilia and other relatives of victims of violence and irresponsibility of authorities, it is unknown why people occupy leading place and NGOs linked to government funding U.S. lobbying for the Merida Initiative, and the organization of the Public Consultation on unit rigged PAN-PRD in the State of Mexico. Such individuals and NGOs, intertwined, of course, could take over the movement, if not already done so, to promote personal and group agendas, and close to the critical and self-criticism.
Likewise, the vast majority of participants in demonstrations and marches for peace with justice and dignity was not consulted over a relatively inclusive mechanism on the vision and points of agreement presented at the Zocalo on May 8 . Play the role of recipient / s, not actors / is, adopt or reject, not to discuss or propose content and timing. Know who made the decision to exclude from the pact that ended, for example, to the Agreements of San Andrés. The same thing happened with the decision of dialogue with the authorities, and the place to do it.
We are running against decisions and facts that apparently no turning back, and offer little scope for refocusing and coming forums and committees to discuss and debate program already agreed.
But what causes great concern for the future of the movement and the pact to end up being the gift that Washington has dreamed social base to give the role that seeks to play in the 2012 presidential election: candidates, programs, campaigns, election observation, qualification choice, and to agree to their interests, mobilization to ignore results or impose.
The 2012 presidential election is of such importance to the United States will not wholly or mainly in the hands of the electorate.
This concern has, among other livelihoods that despite the central responsibility that America plays in the violence they suffer, leaving virtually no condemnation or demands whatsoever in the content of the covenant.
not even mentioned the Merida Initiative, the agreement that has institutionalized the subordination of Mexico to the U.S. war on drugs, "terrorism" and illegal immigration. It would seem that the covenant speaks of a country in Asia or Africa, and not sharing two thousand miles of U.S. border, the more addicted to drugs, arms trafficking, money laundering, trafficking and exploitation of migrants undocumented. Why so generous granted safe conduct to Uncle Sam?
Open Letter concludes with a proposal: Javier Sicilia and other relatives of victims of violence created by a Web page a kind of cooperative public ethics, transparency and accountability in public issues of consistency between what is preached and what is practiced.
The first to contribute to this "cooperative citizen" by amending its corresponding lack of transparency, accountability, and consistency would be people who assume a leading role in the movement, as Emilio Álvarez Icaza, Sergio Aguayo and Father Miguel Concha . ***
Javier
reiterate through this email my solidarity with you and thousands more parents, relatives and friends / you of loved ones who have died as a result of the appalling violence between cartels drug, and as a result also the complicity of authorities, and a strategy to combat drug trafficking grounded in armed conflict, the national security perspective, and subordination to the United States. I
mine alike, Javier, his call and the thousands of persons mentioned above to open in our country wide paths to peace with justice and dignity.
That said, I present the following critical notes on:
• The process that led to the March for peace with justice and dignity to the Covenant for a Mexico in peace, with justice and dignity.
• The content of the covenant.
° it accepted the dialogue with the authorities.
· Place that was meant to do.
• The management / coordination of movement.
• People who already exercise a leading role in the management / coordination of movement, but lack the necessary moral authority to do so.
1. The process leading up to the pact.
The rush to provide "content" to the rolled up the process to build a broad social movement for peace with justice and dignity. This movement could be initiated on the basis of a consultation to citizens / os and organizations interested in helping to shape the vision and program to find a peace of that nature.
THE DEBATE / DIALOGUE PUBLIC THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRED TODAY was not preceded, as they might be, FOR A DEBATE / DIALOGUE BETWEEN CITIZENS / OS and organizations. THEREFORE, THE COVENANT THAT WAS FILED IN THE BASE IS NOT SEEM TO REFORMS CRITICAL OR, IS IT OR LEAVE.
2. Content of the covenant.
The first point of the covenant, "Clarification of murders and disappearances and the victims name" represents the honoring and legitimizes the way, is the rightful claim arising from a deep and widespread pain, motivation means that unites us all . The importance of this point is such that it could be the one required to convene, unite, organize and mobilize hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico and elsewhere. Making this point, this single point is met, would be to carry out a profound change to the way it is governed Mexico, the customs authoritarian and cynical that they are children of corruption and impunity.
The other five points of agreement are as good as could be ten or twenty points - "axis" - different. Moreover, these five points left out key aspects of the serious violence that we suffer, as would be the devastating impact on Mexican territory of the U.S. addiction to drugs, weapons, money laundering, human trafficking and exploitation undocumented migrants / os.
The Covenant does not even mention, let alone convicted, the Merida Initiative, proposed instead an agreement to AS CENTER OF HUMAN SECURITY AND MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS REGARD. A NEW AGREEMENT THAT WERE SUPERVISED AND CERTIFIED BY THE CONGRESS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS OF BOTH COUNTRIES. U.S.
SHARING THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INSECURITY AND VIOLENCE THAT HAVE, WHY SO GOOD CAME RID IN THE SETTLEMENT
3. Acceptance of the dialogue. Haber
immediately accepted dialogue with the authorities due to the same rush that led to develop the six points without consulting citizens / os and organizations.
There is, however an urgent priority must continue the movement: "to clarify killings and disappearances and to name the victims." Beyond that, what had to accept rush dialogue with the authorities on the content of the agreement and plan of action?
hurry Maybe the set matches, NGOs and editorial writers who promote a special session of Congress to pass political reform and appoint Emilio Álvarez Icaza Director of IFE?
4. National Palace, home of the dialogue.
Javier, the National Palace is the perfect space, location, Televisa and TV Azteca to film dramas and egos put on display the cream of power in Mexico. It is the National Palace to the right place to see if it has a future, to start, the meeting of citizens / o injured / os with the President of the Republic.
not possible to modify the decision taken to accept the meeting with Calderon, the proper place, CITIZEN, TO START THE DIALOGUE COULD BE A SCHOOL, a community center or library. HOW IS THE FUND. THIS IS A MEETING serious and austere, and not a media show.
5. Management / coordination of movement.
Direction / Movement coordination peace with justice and dignity and was established, if not formally, at least in reality.
you, Javier, and from then the other relatives of victims of violence, corruption and impunity are the natural direction of movement. It is not known, however, on what grounds are part of the management / coordination people like Emilio Álvarez Icaza, Sergio Aguayo, Father Miguel Concha, and Clara Jusidman. A feature of these people and that could be the reason to give leading roles is that they are friends of yours, and accumulating countless miles refound flight to Mexico. If so, imagine that you keep them in high esteem by the admirable moral authority that would accrue.
HOWEVER, JAVIER, THERE information upon which the EMILIO Fail Alvarez-Icaza, CONCHA FATHER AND SERGIO AGUAYO IN MATCHING, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY.
A) Emilio Álvarez Icaza.
Contributions in IFE.
Emilio is a candidate for Director of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) since October last year. Emilio On several occasions has said that the election of three directors missing should not respond to party quota system, to do so desprestigiaría the IFE and harm democracy. Yet he knows that his choice depends on the PRI to the PRD recognizes their "share" that would be him, Emilio.
Despite this and despite the long months that have elapsed without PAN, PRI and PRD achieve the quota agreement, Emilio has not abandoned his candidacy, on the contrary, is still dogged campaign for the seat on the IFE, using the bathroom now receiving Movement media peace with justice and dignity. Equal
women.
Another major reason that Emily would have to renounce his candidacy would be the predominance of men among the Directors of IFE: a Councillor against five directors. If Emilio respect what he writes and says about women's equality and equity would have given up for months by an appeal to the deputies / os to choose Councillors.
This lack of consistency comes from years ago. The Assembly of Representatives Federal District elected in 1999 to the Directors of the Electoral Institute, among them Emilio Álvarez Icaza. All were men. Some people went public with their condemnation of such a serious discrimination against women. Emilio did not criticize the unfair election.
Honesty.
repeatedly, Alvarez-Icaza has publicly criticized corporatism and corporate vote. However, when he ran for president of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Emilio created a website to promote his candidacy in which he listed the support he had received, among which were, well, no shade one, the University Autónoma Metropolitana, El Colegio de Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, the Union of Chamber of Deputies and the Union of Workers of the Metal, Steel, Iron, and Allied. Not content with this, Emilio added to his long list of heavy support for 86 "Units" and "Centers" of a "Ministry of Education and Culture" that did not tell what city or state owned. To win the presidency of the NHRC, Alvarez-Icaza decided to deceive the public and the Senators.
institutional responsibility.
As head of the Commission on Human Rights Federal District Human, Álvaarez-Icaza had a hard and often critical to successful management of José Luis Soberanes in front of the NHRC. A number of criticisms focused on the lack of independence of Soberanes to the President of the Republic.
However, when Emilio faced the case most momentous of his administration, killed 12 people, nine of them young, as a result of the police operation at the club New's Divine, virtually free of any responsibility to the Head of Government, Marcelo Ebrard . In the March peace with justice and dignity involving mothers, fathers and families of the victims of New's Divine claims must be made justice, some justice in this case. "Protected Ebrard Álvarez-Icaza to receive in exchange for the votes of senators of the PRD in the election of President of the NHRC?
Is this, Javier, the kind of consistency, ethics, moral authority that encompasses the Movement peace with justice and dignity?
B) Father Miguel Concha.
Lobbying for the Merida Initiative. Father Miguel
Cocha, founder and Director of the Center for Human Rights Fray Francisco de Vitoria OP, with good reason to require the authorities to take into account the participation of citizen groups in laws and public policies that affect their lives. However, it does not seem to practice this just demand when you have to.
On May 29, 2008 Vitoria Center was part of the Mexican human rights organizations that sent a letter to leaders of the House of Representatives in Washington lobbying for the Merida Initiative (IM) provided two basic conditions be included : A) to require Mexico to military abuses against civilians be tried in civilian courts also, B) that the Mexican government to establish an independent mechanism, involving civil society to monitor the IM.
The decision to lobby for the IM took Father Concha and other leaders of human rights NGOs without discussing the issue in their Boards, and without asking for any interested citizen groups. To date, nobody knows, outside of the signatories of the letter to the Capitol, why human rights NGOs gave their blessing to the IM and decided not to consult with citizens groups lobbying the property that she planned, and the impact that of Mexico and its people have the IM. (Going to file a copy of the Charter).
In Washington, the IM is an unprecedented step to institutionalize the incorporation of Mexico to U.S. security strategies. Never before has the Pentagon, CIA, DEA, FBI and INS had moved with so much power and freedom in Mexico for combating organized crime, "terrorism" and illegal immigration.
Is the IM, Javier, as peace with justice and dignity for the Mexican nation and its people without borders?
C) Sergio Aguayo.
On the train of history. Sergio walked
happy, very happy at his side, Javier, on the last leg of the march and accompanied him on the first row of the temple located in the Zocalo, with a cap that boasted the Civic Alliance logo, just as there were more cameras and microphones covering the historic event. The photo published by El Pais and other journals in which they appear you, Father Concha, an unidentified woman and Sergio speaks a La Hora Nacional, the only one facing the camera, and I'm about to explode expression of joy, where I go and see whose side after thumping the State Consultation Mexico is Aguayo.
Transparency and accountability.
response to a demand made to him, the Civic Alliance (www.alianzacivica.org.mx), directed by Rogelio Gomez-Hermosillo, presented at Easter the report on the fate of four million dollars, come out of pocket the / these taxpayers who received the PAN and the PRD together with Proposition Civic, chaired by Aguayo, to carry out the Public Consultation in the State of Mexico. The report rise in opacity and vagueness with presidential Echeverría and Salinas. For example, to be distributed over four million points, the report does not specify whether the 410 thousand dollars allocated to "Coordination" shall be allocated to the NGOs responsible for the consultation or landed in bank accounts and Gomez Hermosillo Aguayo. Nor is it clear whether the 100 thousand dollars to appear in the row "City Council" were distributed equally among the members, or if payment, for example, Miguel Angel Granados Chapa for helping to legitimize the Consultation was higher than Denise Dresser received. Consultation
crooked and rigged.
The Public Consultation was a clear conflict of interest: Aguayo and Gomez Hermosillo issued a bonus for the PAN and the PRD, a "new deal" that would benefit the NGOs as they preside. In addition, the Consultation was rigged: if he won the "no" would make a "Citizen Survey" that would have greater weight. Moreover, the Consultation did not have an independent audit of its operation, performance and use of four million pesos. But yes, it was organized and legitimized by people of "proven track record of democracy."
congruence and social inequality.
mid-2009, correcting a public figure that I did, Aguayo admitted that earned 11.975 pesos per share in the Spotlight program Canal Once TV, and an average of 35.625 pesos per month for three shares. Canal Once TV is a public medium that is supported with money from the / os taxpayers.
often in what he says and writes, Aguayo rightly and forcefully criticizes the social inequality that exists in Mexico, and the disparity of income among its citizens' / os. Despite this, he wins by each part in more than Focus monthly salary received by / o police, soldiers, teachers or nurses in the country you. Also, the money you get three shares Aguayo month in the program, 35.625 pesos, representing an income higher than that obtained monthly academic / os in the country for their teaching and research in public and private universities, the / o public hospital doctors, and most officers police and armed forces. Moreover, if such income measured in hours and figured it invests Aguayo three in the preparation of each Spotlight program, he would earn per hour more than the President of the Republic, the Supreme Court of Justice or the IFE.
Aguayo Years ago I suggested that his payment and the other commentators were symbolic Spotlight with exposure that would give the program would be more than enough in return, "and that generous money payment, the IPN establish an annual award for students and teachers to create viable alternatives to you to protect the environment, or respond to weaknesses social, for example, housing and nutrition. Aguayo did not, although revenues would continue even without the check millionaires Foreground.
Javier, are this kind of consistency and accountability that moral authority and trust given to the Movement peace with justice and dignity? "Aguayo represent people as the ethical aspects of this movement and its political leadership?
6. Relationship with the NED.
will not do in this email, Javier, a detailed description of the close relationship Sergio Aguayo has been the controversial U.S. agency National Endowment for Democracy (NED, for its acronym in English), the relationship that has kept equally Alliance Civic, the Mexican NGO that has received more money from the NED, and is distinguished from its founding member, Emilio Álvarez Icaza, and the deal it has with the NED Citizens Media. Democracy and Information (www.ciudadanosenmedios.org.mx), an NGO funded by the agency since its inception and Clara Jusidman which was co-founder and is now part of the Consultative Council.
According to its official history (www.ned.org, "About Us" section "History"), its first director, Allen Weinstein (The Washington Post, September 22, 1991), and newspaper New York Times (March 31, 1997), the NED was created by the Reagan administration openly for the CIA operations carried out covertly, as funding and advice to political parties, media, agencies employers, NGOs, human rights and electoral observation, and movements "independent" civil society. Le
command file, Javier, a good critical introduction to the NED: The test Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombian journalist based in Paris, "When a respectable foundation [the NED] takes over from the CIA," published July 20 by Le Monde Diplomatique.
7. "Cooperative" ethical and moral authority of citizens.
The sense of this, Javier, is admirable that you and your comrades of pain and struggle to summon citizens of Mexico without borders to create a social capital of transparency, accountability, and consistency in matters of age in which we participate. This ethical social capital would be more valuable and powerful letter of peace with justice movement and dignity.
Convenience and realization of an idea would have to discuss it with those who are part of the movement or sympathize with him, along with other ideas and proposals to consolidate and strengthen it. The social capital
be formed, for example, when a human rights NGO that does not practice publicly acknowledged in the composition of their staff who preaches gender equity, but promises to do so in a few months and inform. Or, when a / retired activist decided to get back on track by contributing to electronic dissemination of violence perpetrated against women and girls, boys indigenous people and migrants, and personal and collective responses to it. Similarly, when a group of youths resolved to establish a book club and literary creation in your neighborhood, or school.
Javier, thanks for your generous attention to this mail. I remain at your disposal to clarify, if necessary, the information that I send. I reiterate the invitation at other times I have to Emilio Álvarez Icaza, Sergio Aguayo and Rogelio Gomez Hermosillo to publicly discuss the content of the mail, and the like add on me. This time, I extend the invitation to Father Miguel Concha and Clara Jusidman.
Javier, I wish the best for you and the other fathers, mothers, daughters / os, spouses, and family victims of atrocious violence carried out by organized crime, often in collusion with officials of the three branches of government.
rebellion Viva! Viva la Lucha!
Primitivo Rodríguez Oceguera
Bachelor of Theology, Seminary of the Jesuits, Rio Hondo, San Angel, Mexico City.
Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Chicago.
PS Since I have your email address, Javier, thank Sergio Aguayo and Father Miguel Concha forwarding you this mail.
