The story of Don Alejandro Garza Tamez, 77 year old man who defended the spoil sacrificing his own life, has touched the heartstrings of a corporation injured by organized crime that begins to contemplate the possibility of civil resistance.
With the threat of being stripped of his ranch prepared to defend their property entrenching their sporting rifles. Before the arrival of the criminals opened fire killing 4 and wounding two more, before falling dead.
The criminals had to return empty handed, unable to take the property. Even dead, Don Alejo triumphed. Did what many thought and that few had dared to say or do: take up arms and return fire.
But what made this brave man is not new. Civil society in that territory in war has sought their own ways of resisting the ravages of organized crime to the ineptitude cynical politicians who have proven, quite simply, joint managers.
Given the silence of Tamaulipas politicians more concerned with the political image than the welfare of their own citizens, society was organized to build an efficient system of monitoring and reporting via Twitter.
And it was in that same place where Don Alejo twitterer Garza Tamez has been one of the most contentious issues since the news broke. He has been hailed as a hero. The bullets fired Don Alejo were signed by hundreds of thousands of people, citizens of this country to war, who have been wronged by organized crime, who have suffered the theft, kidnapping, extortion, threat.
These bullets were signed by all those honest citizens who overnight lost a lifetime of work and effort, just because it came a horde of armed idiots steal the fruits of their labor.
Don Alejo knew it was going to die and did not care. He knew his actions that night were going to leave a message. Would be a declaration of dignity. Like him, there are other people who prefer to give their lives rather than give more power to criminals.
So Peter told us about another victim of theft in Reynosa who, in the few assets that were less valuable it is, perhaps, his own life.'s Not afraid to lose.
"And now, what do?" Peter accepted. "I left almost in ruins, but fuck your mother. Me and will not get anything. "He opened his palm
of his hand and showed me a pill.
"I bring with me all the time. The day I want to take it up me and goodbye. A bitch. Better dead than keeping those bastards. "
Don Alejo's story is also launching a reality check to those who, from the center of the country, has limited the debate on human rights, legitimacy of presidents, nests and recite numbers and more numbers . These ideologues, "opinólogos" desktop have not been able to focus their vision on what matters most: the victims of organized crime.
Indeed, there is an enemy, there is a criminal side. And there are also victims, hundreds of thousands. No is an invention, or a smokescreen. There are criminal groups that are undermining the fundamental rights of citizens. They, the criminals have been the first to suspend the guarantees in this area.
us not lose. The enemy is organized crime. Felipe Calderón may be inept, but no less real enemy and, indeed, existed before Calderon took office.
Here in Tamaulipas, where I write, organized crime gangs have violated individual rights and "no" fundamental rights of those who live here.
Ask the citizens of Nuevo Laredo between 2003 and 2005 experienced a of the most violent wars in living memory when the Sinaloa Cartel attempted to wrest the seat to the Gulf Cartel and triggered a series of grudges and vendettas that have brought us to today's crisis. That's where he started this war.
Don Alejo's sacrifice shaken by the lapels throughout the country, especially to all those debaters desktop provided ideological make a profit for their candidate have minimized what happens here.
Don Alejo's sacrifice exhorts us, heartbreakingly, to action. The careful arrangement of the weapons at each window of his estate, was not designed only for a proper defense, but to a powerful message that should be captured by someone.
That night, as Don Alejo fired, he was communicating with us.
RESIST, TAMAULIPAS. RESIST
MEXICO.
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