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As the date of the World Cup Soccer nears, the rhetoric that Mexicans are a dirty, undeserving people do so as well, I cannot hope to speak about every single thing that preoccupies me in this post but I can try: as a person who lives in one of the host cities for the cup I see the push back that is happening every day near where the soccer matches are happening, near the principal avenues and the highways, near the universities, and in the public transportation system. Against any sort of order or even common sense, the governor's actions this year seem to align with the interests of foreign activities over those of the people who live here, be it hiding the undesirable parts of the cities in the north, brutalizing university professors and primary school teachers in the capitol, and even disappearing 53 highschool students this week in classical police fashion, escalating violence in the days following up to international events in this country.

In Mexico (the state and the city too) the response against protesters is, unsurprisingly, barricading and attacking citizens who demand accountability for the disproportionate number of disappeared persons this year, the historic violence against sexual workers, the cease of school activities for the World Cup, I mean, the list is quite long and these are only ones off the top of my head like??? I haven't even mentioned yet the president's suggestion that Mexicans don't go outside at all so the city can better accommodate tourists.

There's also the public transit chaffeurs general strike in Mexico City on the eleventh (here's to hoping this also happens in the other cities) so I'm not sure even tourists will be able to move at all the day of the inauguration. I might be forgetting a strike or two atp ://

As the date of the World Cup Soccer nears, the rhetoric that Mexicans are a dirty, undeserving people do so as well, I cannot hope to speak about every single thing that preoccupies me in this post but I can try: as a person who lives in one of the host cities for the cup I see the push back that is happening every day near where the soccer matches are happening, near the principal avenues and the highways, near the universities, and in the public transportation system. Against any sort of order or even common sense, the governor's actions this year seem to align with the interests of foreign activities over those of the people who live here, be it hiding the undesirable parts of the cities in the north, brutalizing university professors and primary school teachers in the capitol, and even disappearing 53 highschool students this week in classical police fashion, escalating violence in the days following up to international events in this country.

In Mexico (the state and the city too) the response against protesters is, unsurprisingly, barricading and attacking citizens who demand accountability for the disproportionate number of disappeared persons this year, the historic violence against sexual workers, the cease of school activities for the World Cup, I mean, the list is quite long and these are only ones off the top of my head like??? I haven't even mentioned yet the president's suggestion that Mexicans don't go outside at all so the city can better accommodate tourists.

There's also the public transit chaffeurs general strike in Mexico City on the eleventh (here's to hoping this also happens in the other cities) so I'm not sure even tourists will be able to move at all the day of the inauguration. I might be forgetting a strike or two atp ://

They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.

They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.