transition Voices
In The year 2010 marked a milestone in the history of Oaxaca, for the first time in decades the people elected the Governor of the State, local members of Congress and mayors in a democratic contest. The power struggle was between a coalition of parties, from right to left, accompanied by a variety of social organizations and citizens in general to the power of government, the budget and his party. This compendium of 39 essays, reviews, articles and interviews was intended to explain how this great change that has allowed Oaxaca now has a democratically elected. We will see if it is effective.
count events with emphasis on the last two decades, but with memories of the historical heritage of this state in southern Mexico. The coincidence of the authors is to point out the glut of Oaxaca with the government of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, and especially with the last of the governors emanating from that party, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, who says he's responsible for the dead popular revolt in 2006. The Supreme Court's Office and said he is responsible for the violation of citizens' human rights.
Reading it can have an overview of what happened in Oaxaca, who were the protagonists and how they did in order to integrate the broad electoral coalition won an absolute majority on July 4, 2006. That fact in itself can be considered as a tribute to the citizens of Oaxaca to national heroes and the exploits of: Independence Revolution began in 1810 and launched in 1910. You can say that in Oaxaca if you celebrated the bicentennial and the centennial to match those feats, which was not in a comparable national events. Thus, in Oaxaca began democracy.
A significant attribute of the book is its interdisciplinary content and plural. Several voices are heard. Some known and rediscovered as the planner Alejandro Calvo Camacho, the historian Carlos Sánchez Silva, the leftist activist Jesús López Clemente and Isidoro Yescas sociologist. Other voices heard for the first time and which are pleasant for its freshness like Claudio Sanchez Islands. All voices are heard made written word committed to Oaxaca Oaxaca is the end all, are the Cultural Heritage of Humanity and its capital city of Monte Alban Mesoamerican city.
The order of the book allows us to know, in different voices, various areas of transition. There are, chronicling events of the past few years to decades, as the fall of one of the giants of the Zocalo laurels and immediate and forceful protest of the city citizens, by the arbitrary plan to remodel the historic center that would impose the government or the fall of a despotic governor in the sixth decade of the twentieth century, in memory of a journalist reporting the events as a child.
text is drawn in the gaps, is a portrait of the state of affairs. Some suggestions of what to do about it. And there is much to fix up what was not completed by the late regime. Such is the case of the roof of the Guelaguetza auditorium stood like bathing suit or Rimbro rinbros , but broken. A very well presented proposal: that of journalist Guadalupe Thomas: reforming certain articles of the Local Constitution to meet the right of citizens to information.
A discordant voice. The former governor Diodoro Carrasco Altamirano, 1998 to 2004, before Secretary of State Planning and Senator, then secretary and federal interior secretary until the PRI gave the presidency to the National Action Party-PAN-PAN deputy then accompanying Felipe Calderón, from 2006 to 2009. In the interview he made the coordinators in the light of the delays in Oaxaca are the same or worse, avoided answering the question "What is your opinion of his political career and his role as public servant and as a ruler? He is one of those responsible for the precarious state of Oaxaca and the misery of thousands of families living Oaxaca.
Before concluding, the book features the voice of Gabino Cue Monteagudo Governor, sing and elected office today. Has the support of most people. And his facts, his government and co-rulers, will be the reality of this transition or not.
No book is complete, hence the need to read as many as possible. In this, most authors are inland, in the capital, there is a vision of Oaxaca from the large Pacific coast from the sea. Much is said about the capital city and almost nothing but statistics, the state as a whole, regions, small towns and villages. And Oaxaca is Chazumba and Mazunte. And Chimalapas and Texmelucan. And the thousands of people of the 570 municipalities.
The second decade of the twenty-first century will see how this transition progresses.
Title: Oaxaca 2010, the voices of the transition
Authors: Claudio Sanchez Yescas Islands and Isidoro Martinez coordinators.
Editorial: Posters Editors
Edition: First, December 2010.
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| Presentation of the book in Newspaper Nestor Sanchez Hernandez the December 17, 2010. |
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