Mexico on Verge of Major Social Outburst Villoro Says

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The writers Juan Villoro and Paco Ignacio Taibo II led the march Monday to mark the fifth Global Action for Ayotzinapa.

The Mexican writer Juan Villoro said Wednesday at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) that Mexico is “on the verge of a major social outburst,” referring to the 43 Ayotzinapa missing students, the corruption and the policies and reforms pushed by Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto.

The writer identified the problem as a political and social decomposition. “There is a severe social decomposition, and the Ayotzinapa case has just demonstrated that we live in a country governed by impunity, where the government and the political parties are not subjected to legality, where the influence of peddling rules politics, and where being a politician is just a way to become rich,” said Villoro, in an interview with EFE.

Villoro and the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II joined Monday, the march in Guadalajara to mark the fifth Global Action for Ayotzinapa, amidst the International Book Fair celebrated in this city.

Taibo said Monday, “It is important to make explicit our support to the cause, and doing it amidst the fair is very important. We can’t let the FIL to be a silent space when the country is shouting.”

Villoro pointed out that the situation in Mexico is alarming since the social indignation and empathy with the victims of violence is growing but there are no political leaders that share the indignation and could give a solution to the country’s problem. “We are on the edge of an abyss and if we don’t step back, we are going to fall down,” said the writer.

And added, “This is a very difficult moment because there is so much indignation on the streets, a lot of empathy with the victims of violence, but there is no hope, there is not a political figure or institution to identify with as our leader, or our party.”

Villoro thinks that the only way out of this difficult situation is, “to completely reform the State, to change the ways of political participation, and to citizen politics."[readon1 url="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexico-on-Verge-of-Major-Social-Outburst-Villoro-Says-20141203-0032.html"]Source:www.telesurtv.net[/readon1]