During last months we've seen several
Mexican celebrities showing endorsement for “Venezuela” and the
“people” of Venezuela. But where were this well-meaning TV Stars
when police and the military killed students in Mexico?
Top talk show presenter Laura Bozzo
took some time
on February 17 to condemn “communist” like Maduro, live on
TELEVISA. Her show is one of the most watched in Mexico and TELEVISA
the
biggest Spanish-spoken company of the world. Top folk singer
Marco Antonio Solis “El Buki” said on February 20, he supported
“Venezuela”. When celebrities say “the people” of Venezuela
“is not alone”, the media take it like support for anti-Maduro
protesters, as if no common citizens were supporting President
Maduro. The web page of “El UNIVERSAL” -the
most visited news site in Mexico- linked “El Buki” claims to
the violence against “students
peaceful protest”even when we know from the very beginning
those protest were not peaceful. Top Mexican soccer player
“Chicharito” Hernandez tweeted
his support for “freedom” in Venezuela on February 24. He's
not just the most famous soccer player but the most famous athlete of
Mexico today -now playing for Manchester United- and till that moment
he had never demonstrated support for any political cause. During a
game in Honduras in 2013, alpinist Leonardo Fernandez carrying a sign
of the left wing Mexican movement “MORENA” tried
to greet “Chicharito” and he refused it.
Neither “Chicharito” Hernandez, nor
“El Buki” said anything when 2 students of the Ayotzinapa
Teachers School were
killed by the Mexican police in 2009 when they were asking for
scholarships. No one said anything when Juan Francisco Kuykendall
was shot in the head while protesting during the sworn-in of
President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2012. Kuykendall died
on January this year after almost 2 years of agony as result of
his wounds, all Mexican celebrities and TELEVISA remained silent, as
if nothing happened.
Former Mexican president Felipe
Calderon of the right wing party PAN was ready to
condemn criminalization
of protest in Venezuela, on February 14, even when he did not
hesitate to use the Federal Police to arrest Oaxaca State social
Leaders and to continue
repression against APPO movement on 2007. Even more, on 2010 two
young Mexican postgraduate students of the ITESM (Monterrey
Institute of Technology) were killed by the Mexican army who took
them for drug cartel hitmen. Mr Calderon government went
by without solving these murders despite complains
of Human Rights Watch. No Mexican celebrity has ever asked for
the truth and justice for these victims.
Top TV-historian Enrique Krauze
criticized
Dilma Rousseff on February 25 for supporting “repressive
regimen”. He has never called “repressive regime” to Peña
Nieto government for the use of
tear gas and a water cannon against Mexican teachers that were
meeting at the Zocalo of Mexico City on 2013 demanding an agreed
Educative Reform instead of an imposed one.
This is why recent burst of support to
Venezuela from Mexican celebrities seems artificial. It makes no
sense in the context of the recent history. Maybe some kind of never
seen humanitarian enlightenment has come over our TV Stars at the
same time or this amazing synchronous concert is driven from a more
worldly pressure.
I'll go with second, just Occam's razor
