criticizes anti-crime policy, insecurity, reflecting the lack of social responses, he said.
Alonso Urrutia
Carlos Salinas in the forum organized by the IFE. Photo Marco Pelaez
newspaper La Jornada Wednesday October 13, 2010, p. 17
In the Latin American Forum on Democracy, Salinas was the center of attraction, so that the man who precipitated the crisis of the hegemonic party system after the elections of 1988 had much to say.
however, was not confined only to theorize about the Latin American democracies in the XXI century, which was, in fact, subject, and gave space to question the current anti-crime policy.
Salinas chose insecurity in Ciudad Juarez to illustrate the shortcomings of non-social responses, the day that President Felipe Calderón returned to that frontier.
"Today, in Ciudad Juárez, as I commented this morning, the cartels are recruiting young people for 500 pesos for each rival running. And what is known is that many of these young people are willing to accept the job they do because they need the resource to take the family home, and what they're hoping is that there is a chance that the source not cartel that enables them to have income to meet family needs.
"If we do not have a social response to a sense of community organizing," he continued, not even the formidable challenge that we have security in our country today we can address. Democracy, security, justice, issues that cut horizontally all the question of organized citizen participation. "
finished off his criticism pointing the lack of a comprehensive vision, "because with the meager salaries of policemen and their lack of education-primary education does not pass, still wants to be required to have a response to citizen complaint against the onslaught billionaire community engaged in cartels drugs "
historical memory
The arrival of former President of the Palace of Mines was in the midst of a safety device. Jostling, he managed to reply that their presence was due to an invitation to speak about democracy.
- Do you still feel repudiated?
said "Good morning to address the panel, where you only bother to some questions of Chilean journalist Mónica González on historical memory, which settled with a promise to send you a thousand 400-page book containing self-criticism of management.
Justified his invitation on the grounds that his administration created the Federal Electoral Institute, an institution that at its twentieth anniversary hosted the Latin American forum, "Salinas was awarded a portion of their collective authorship. Outlined his vision supple, smooth, a tension of the 1988 election.
That was the most competitive election cycle match almost unique in our country, and lack of acceptance of the result by a very respectable combined electorate, we must remember, with social unrest from the crisis financial end of 87, a sharp devaluation, excessive increase in prices of public goods.
With the election authority controlled by the government and his party, said Salinas, could not build consensus, so the answer was the creation of IFE, which was agreed with Carlos Castillo Peraza and Fernandez Diego Cevallos -To whom I will soon return to his family and political debate, which is sorely lacking, "with Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. It was, he said despite the opposition of some members of the party, "because the PRI had our nomenklatura, despite which there was glasnost and perestroika."
He went on to describe the elections at the end of his term, with an IFE citizenize and where there was suspicion of manipulation to citizen counselors. A view outside the troubled end of his term, no allusion to the Zapatista uprising and the murder of one who had emerged as his successor, Luis Donaldo Colosio, and instead claim to the highest turnout in history and ending with rave reviews to the IFE.
One criticism, Chilean journalist asked. The former president reversed the question to praise the Solidarity program, I wanted to go to the essence of the term of republican democracy, the people are subjects rather than objects of their own transformation, which is a breakthrough, he said, self-government. Yes, on the Republican side of democracy, surely we were very short in terms of institutionalization.
the end, it was as he arrived, jostling and turmoil.
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