MEXICO IS TIRED. WE’RE BREAKING THE HABIT OF DESPAIR. Yesterday, graduate students from Universidad Nacional, responded to the federal government’s accusation of aiming to destabilize the nation.
The following is a rough translation of what the students had to say. All though it may not be the best translation, we do this so that more people know what is going on in our country, an where does the student movement stand.
PEÑA NIETO: Shielded under grief, they pretend to make their protests valid. Protests that sometimes, have no clear objective. It would seem that they respond to an interest of generating destabilization.
UNAM’s GRADUATE STUDENTS ANSWER.
It’s been said that we want to destabilize the country.
NO, Enrique. What we want, is to stabilize the country.
Graduate students are tired.
Tired of the number of politic prisioners that grows larger each day.
Tired of the impunity pact between the entrepreneurial and political elites that control our country.
Tired of a declining economy holding on to the same system that has enriched the richest and impoverished the poorest for the past 30 years.
We are tired of presidents leading viceroys’ lives, when there is so much poverty in our country.
Tired of legislators that pass bills in order to make dispossession and looting legal. Like they did with the energy reform.
Tired of minimum wage that can’t buy a basic food basket.
Tired of justice being substituted by the settling of scores, so characteristic of mobs and mafias.
Tired of having the only options of unemployment or narco, or who the hell knows.
Tired of being excluded, rejected from the educational system.
Tired of politicians not representing the citizenship.
We are tired of impunity being the norm in our country.
Tired of mothers having to look for their sons in mass graves.
Tired of the ministers of the Supreme Court collecting millionaire salaries, to serve the interests of the president in-office.
Tired of the attempts at silencing the truth with the assassination of journalists.
Tired of the informative manipulation by the slavish media.
We are tired of the prioritization of the interests of the extractive industry that destroys our country.
Tired of the dangers our families face when leaving our houses, due to violence in the streets.
Tired of crying for our dead and calcined children at ABC Daycare Center.
Tired of living in a party-rule that has kidnapped our country.
Tired of a government imposed by television networks, at service of the higher bidder.
Tired of the government setting free drug traffickers, such as Caro Quintero.
Tired of politicians selling our country to make themselves richer.
Tired of Peña Nieto’s government condoning 180,000 million pesos in taxes to his ‘buddies’ while raising them for the citizenship.
Tired of you doing nothing to change this country.
MURILLO KARAM: Thank you very much. I’m tired.
We are tired of doing nothing.
CROWD: Out with Peña!e
Who’s more tired? You, the corrupted government. Or the citizenship?
Mexicans have begun to brake the habit of despair, in order to get organized and start fixing this mess of a country you’ve left us with. THIS IS JUST GETTING STARTED.
#YAMECANSÉ