México: Un títere más

México: Un títere más

Como mexicano, duele reconocer que México se a convertido en un títere de los Estados Unidos. México y su gobierno están a la disposición de su vecino del norte, al cual llama amigo. Una Amistad que esta basada en una estrategia estadounidense que busca controlar la sociedad mexicana y su gobierno.

La realidad es que los Estados Unidos solo busca tener el control de la región Latino Americana y no busca el bienestar de los países vecinos. La estrategia de los Estados Unidos es de adquirir el mayor poder posible para así mantener su grandeza como potencia mundial. En cada relación existe un interés: el interés de los estadounidenses son las riquezas de México (riquezas que incluyen desde las naturales hasta las políticas, sociales y económicas) y no su estabilidad.

Es justo decir, que la guerra contra el narco trafico es un estrategia de EE.UU para mantener su poder dentro de la republica mexicana. El problema mas grande de México, diría yo, es la relación tan cercana que tiene con Estados Unidos.

Estados Unidos y su gobierno es, en mi opinión, la bestia de un cuento que no termina en final feliz—al menos no para aquellos países que son considerados tercermundistas. Si bien México consiguió su independencia de España en 1820, la dependencia de los Estados Unidos comenzó casi de inmediato. Es decir México logro ser independiente de un país para ser dependiente de otro. El gobierno de México no es controlado desde Los Pinos o de Palacio Nacional si no desde la Casa Blanca.

Power, Property, and Machismo

Power, Property, and Machismo

Why should a woman submit under a man’s control? Is it because of what men have between their legs? Or perhaps because over the years it has been the norm society has been set?

Perhaps there is not an answer and we might not really know why women accept the socially constructed idea of control. Truth is that [men] history and society take advantage of what has been done in the past. They have used and unused their “power” at their own will and for their own benefit. And I ask: what have we done to change those socially constructed ideas of what it means to be female and the ever-presence of male dominance? The answer might be a simple nothing.

Everything has been politicized. From women’s sexuality to the role they play in the social, political and economic spheres. And even though women have made major strides to change their political, social and economic situation: they are still underrepresented in congress and earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.

Women as property come from the “United Statesian” paternalistic ideology of taking care of the individual in need.

Men have thought that women belong to them, as if they were property bought at an auction. The idea of women becoming a man’s property begins at marriage when women change their last name, and take that of her husband. But who’s at fault for this ideology? It is not just women’s fault for giving up to the idea of “machismo,” it is society for reinforcing the idea.

The portrayal of women on the media reinforces the idea that they are powerless and that all the power resides on the hands of men. Women in almost every case act weak, frail, submissive and passive in the presence of men. This can partly be attributed to the fact that women have always been treated as inferior; the ones that do not deserve to exercise authority over their workplace, home, or lives because the shadow of man in omnipresent.

While the role women play today has change, major changes in the political, social and economic spheres have not been made. The glass ceiling has only been shattered and not broken in it entirety. In the attempt of changing social norms, ones need to start by changing the perception of women and the culture of sexism.