This article by Sara Sefchovich is a
scathing criticism of the political system, parties, and leaders of Mexico. The author laments that “los que gobiernan”
only care about their own personal well-being and re-election, while the people
are suffering. Millions of dollars are
spent on campaigns while, for example, a hospital’s hemodialysis system was
shut down for lack of funding. What are
the people who depend on that service supposed to do? The news stations are complicit in this disregard
for public welfare, the author asserts.
This fundamental divide between those in charge and the rest of the
country, she cries, explains the violence in Mexico.
In reading this article, which I
selected out of the opinion section of the website, I tried to keep a steady
and fairly fast pace. There were plenty
of unfamiliar words, but by looking out for clues from sentence structure,
familiar conjunctions and small words, and cognates with French and English, I
was able to pick up the main idea as well as a number of details. I am beginning to recognize verb tenses and associate
them with the appropriate number/person, even if, as is often the case in
Spanish, the subject is omitted.
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