Mexico holds its breath...
as we await the outcome of today's amassing of disappointed voters at the Zocolo in Mexico City. The narrowly defeated left leaning candidate Obrador appears to want to make a fight out of it.
If he incites his followers to an extreme it could turn out ugly. We really don't need anymore ugliness, there's plenty already.
As I've mentioned before, it seems to me that, the Mexican public doesn't have a firm grip on the concept of democracy. Specifically, the idea that the majority rules. As one campaign worker for Obrador was quoted: " We all worked so hard, we had so many people how could we have lost?".
The probability that thousands of others also worked hard to have their candidates elected never occurs to her. To be out voted is not considered an option. It must be fraud!
It's been 488 years since Cortés started this whole show and Mexico is still trying to adjust to the Western World.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
MEXICO (as I see it):
In the tropical climates it is easy to forget proper maintenance of one's property. The weather, for the most part,is so agreeable that a missing window pane or a door that has a half inch gap at the bottom tend to go unnoticed because their effect is negligible.
For this reason, when the tides turn, which they always do eventually, and torrents of water pour from the sky all hell breaks loose. Water shoots through the open window pane and rivers its way under those doors spreading great swamps through kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and baths.
It would be bad enough if the only water holes were those you
had known about and neglected, that way you could only blame
yourself for indolence, but water, that is, tons of water, cascading ever downward seeks out new places to enter or creates
its own.
It is to this watery wonderland that you mutter oaths while barefooted, trousers rolled to the knees, up to your ankles in rain water mucking out the master bedroom. You can picture how easy it would have been to replace the pane one nice, sunny, summer day as jagged spears of lightening stab at the earth and the wind drives dime-sized rain drops into your face with the force of a pellet gun.
While outside on the patios trying to open clogged drains, as neon bright bolts of electricity snap and sizzle all around and the accompanying thunder vibrates the whole house causing you to cringe and duck, you wonder why you didn't seal those gaps under the doors. The Mexican tiled floors become so treacherously slippery that it would be safer to cross a hockey rink on four inch high heels than to mop up water on one of these glassy surfaces.
But, as the rain abates and the violent wind calms itself into a soft breeze and the clouds begin to go there separate ways you relaxe a little. An hour or two after the storm the dripping noises are silenced by the hot sun and things look much better.
As the flowers and ferns right themselves after the battering you
promise to remember to make a mental note of what all went wrong.
What were some of those things that needed to be done? House
maintenance seems so silly when the majority of the year is bright, balmy and bone dry.
Perhaps this will be the last storm of this intensity, after all the rainy season is almost over. Sometime, you must try to do those few things to protect the house. Next spring would be good since everything will be nice and dry after a rainless winter. Yes, that's it, first thing next spring you'll make a list of everything that needs to be done to waterproof the house.
Right now though let's just enjoy the beautiful greenery the rains have brought and take some sun out on the patio. OK?
If he incites his followers to an extreme it could turn out ugly. We really don't need anymore ugliness, there's plenty already.
As I've mentioned before, it seems to me that, the Mexican public doesn't have a firm grip on the concept of democracy. Specifically, the idea that the majority rules. As one campaign worker for Obrador was quoted: " We all worked so hard, we had so many people how could we have lost?".
The probability that thousands of others also worked hard to have their candidates elected never occurs to her. To be out voted is not considered an option. It must be fraud!
It's been 488 years since Cortés started this whole show and Mexico is still trying to adjust to the Western World.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
MEXICO (as I see it):
In the tropical climates it is easy to forget proper maintenance of one's property. The weather, for the most part,is so agreeable that a missing window pane or a door that has a half inch gap at the bottom tend to go unnoticed because their effect is negligible.
For this reason, when the tides turn, which they always do eventually, and torrents of water pour from the sky all hell breaks loose. Water shoots through the open window pane and rivers its way under those doors spreading great swamps through kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and baths.
It would be bad enough if the only water holes were those you
had known about and neglected, that way you could only blame
yourself for indolence, but water, that is, tons of water, cascading ever downward seeks out new places to enter or creates
its own.
It is to this watery wonderland that you mutter oaths while barefooted, trousers rolled to the knees, up to your ankles in rain water mucking out the master bedroom. You can picture how easy it would have been to replace the pane one nice, sunny, summer day as jagged spears of lightening stab at the earth and the wind drives dime-sized rain drops into your face with the force of a pellet gun.
While outside on the patios trying to open clogged drains, as neon bright bolts of electricity snap and sizzle all around and the accompanying thunder vibrates the whole house causing you to cringe and duck, you wonder why you didn't seal those gaps under the doors. The Mexican tiled floors become so treacherously slippery that it would be safer to cross a hockey rink on four inch high heels than to mop up water on one of these glassy surfaces.
But, as the rain abates and the violent wind calms itself into a soft breeze and the clouds begin to go there separate ways you relaxe a little. An hour or two after the storm the dripping noises are silenced by the hot sun and things look much better.
As the flowers and ferns right themselves after the battering you
promise to remember to make a mental note of what all went wrong.
What were some of those things that needed to be done? House
maintenance seems so silly when the majority of the year is bright, balmy and bone dry.
Perhaps this will be the last storm of this intensity, after all the rainy season is almost over. Sometime, you must try to do those few things to protect the house. Next spring would be good since everything will be nice and dry after a rainless winter. Yes, that's it, first thing next spring you'll make a list of everything that needs to be done to waterproof the house.
Right now though let's just enjoy the beautiful greenery the rains have brought and take some sun out on the patio. OK?
posted by bbuckman | 3:52 AM
3 Comments:
So THAT's why nothing gets done in Mexico? I wondered LOL. I always loved the traffic scenes after a heavy rain...the stalled cars, walkers trying to find a way across the river of brown water, traffic lights even less working than usual...merry chaos.
You've got it. Nothing's changed.
At least the rains are finally upon you..how's that lawn looking?
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