EDITORIAL
Por
El objetivo de este ejemplar y los subsecuentes
es formar un elemento más del sistema de medios de comunicación para nuestra
comunidad estudiantil.
Es un espacio para expresión y difusión de
artículos, noticias, eventos y no tan comerciales en el medio, pero sí de suma
importancia; y de los cuales carecemos de información suficiente.
La dirección, producción, edición, revisión,
traducción, idea, creatividad y anexas están a cargo de
DEDICATORIA
Este ejemplar está totalmente dedicado a los
osos grises de las selvas de Noruega, sin los cuales la edición y el tiraje de
la presente gazeta no hubieran sido posibles.
ATENTO AVISO
Al público en general, se le informa que por
causas de fuerza mayor ajenas al nuestra responsabilidad, el FIN DE MUNDO
programado para el 11 de Agosto del presente año, se pospone para el próximo 9
de Septiembre del año en curso.
Atentamente
LA IGNORANCIA
JÜRGEN KLINSMANN
Por
Afamado jugador de Soccer y seleccionado de
Alemania, desfiló ante varios clubes para terminar su carrera deportiva ante el
Tottenham de Inglaterra.
También debutó en el Bayern Manchen. Su juego de despedida fue en Australia:
jugadores estrellas de la FIFA vs. La selección de Australia.
STANLEY KUBRICK
Por
El genio, controvertido, audaz, hombre y
extraordinario cineasta de todos los tiempos. Nos deja un excelente legado:
“Eyes Wide Shut” que se estrenó en los Estados Unidos el 16 de Julio pasado y
en nuestro país el próximo 3 de Septiembre.
Definitivamente habrá que apreciarla.
OLD PRESIDENT OR NEW CITIZEN
By
We always remember some people by his or her work or legacy. Why? Because we always remember moments, minutes or facts, never days or entire lives.
Even there is an old fashion proverb: Do many things well and one bad, and you will be remembered by the last one. How true is it, instead the first ones?
Lets take a view thru history. Einstein did a lot of well things and was the great physician that divided the physics in two eras, the old one and the nuclear. Too much people think he invented the atomic bomb and created the biggest human disaster: the partially destruction of the man by himself. Not all is true, but his mind. The mind of his body was brilliant and could be homage to science.
In case of Hitler, he was a great super leader and did a lot of bad things and a few good ones. We all remember him as the antichrist, but what about his military strategies, his power of command and his brilliant ideas of leadership. His search for the perfect mankind still as a utopia and as a consequence of war crimes he is worst than the antichrist.
I could list a whole list of names of leaders, great or bad ones, but now I'll just name a few ones as Mussolini, Eisenhower, Lenin, Thatcher, Kohl, Nixon, Díaz, Villa and even Pío XII.
And not going deeper in this list and taking the names of leaders as presidents; there is (or was?) a great leader, economist, politician, and president. His name: Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
President of Mexico from 1988 thru 1994. Yes I know. He did too many good things and a few ones, but the last ones had a heavier weight than the first ones for the Mexican people. But lets take another view thru history.
I can take the words of Charles Dickens: "...were the best times, were the worst times". Salinas took the country with too much economic doubts and political problems. His government opened the doors of worldwide trading and one important fact was that the inflation in one year became to one digit, and repeated thru two more. Some international bankers and investors wanted to come to Mexico and make business, and they did.
Alan Stoga, executive director of Kissinger Associates Inc. wrote the first day of November of nineteen ninety four: "After Salinas, Mexico would never be the same", and it did. His article refers to facts I mentioned above and some more.
An immediate and visible fact was the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the political sequels from Washington went on time and correct.
We can’t deny that Salinas left the country better than he received it, or can we?
But nineteen ninety four is just five years ago and just in the last month, he did wrong. But no one still can prove it; even the justice neither other politicians.
He left us many new hospitals, schools, environmental programs and other benefits like the solidarity economic program. Even his thoughts to follow or not, like the pupils to the teacher and the people to him. We share other economic measures: The economic deal for the basic products, the maintenance of taxes and special programs for the people who have less than others.
And then came December, one error and the auto exile. There were devaluation and murders that still exist without an exact author (and will exist like that).
These last events are past and the past doesn’t exist anymore. We have to concentrate in the present to prepare the future. We need to learn of those errors and fortresses. We can learn about what Carter did with Cuba, Reagan for his reelection or Thatcher for the South American islands and much more.
After those exiling years Salinas came back to his country. His country because he was born here and it’s his home. Who can presume of not missing the home where were grown up?
He has the rights as a Mexican to enter his country, to live in it and to leave it whenever he desires. He came back after those years living in Ireland to speak to us (forced or not).
At least this is not homage or an unpopular image of Salinas, but an objective and different point of view for another Mexican.
To end this writing, how do you qualified Salinas de Gortari? As an old and forgotten president, an eternal prosecution case, and economic human error, a genetic error of God, a great leader or a New Mexican citizen (as you are)?
NAFTA
By Carlos Salinas de
Gortari
NAFTA is an environment improvement agreement, because with additional resources, we will take better care or our environment. NAFTA is a wage-increasing agreement, because we are committed to increasing real wages in Mexico, more than they have increased today, when NAFTA is ratified. And NAFTA is a migration reduction agreement, because Mexicans will not have to migrate north looking for jobs in this country, but they will be able to find them in my own, which is my own main commitment. If Mexico prospers, the US and Canada will prosper. That is why this is not a win/lose solution but a win/win/win situation for the three countries in the northern part of the American Continent.
The Latin American community is watching eagerly for NAFTA’s success, because it means hope for the whole region, and for the rest of the world, increased competitiveness (which) this is good for all of us.
Carlos Salinas de
Gortari, June 1993.
Part of the Transcript of Commencement by Myself.
BLUES EN EL ALMA
Por MemoRock
Cuando mi amigo, el Sultán,
Éste se encuentra con una basta experiencia, ya
sea como músico de sesión o como solista. Su historia se remonta a la década de
los sesenta. Tan sólo escuchar canciones como “Still Got The Blues” o “Parisienne
Walkways”, hacen que a uno se le acelere el corazón. Si todavía no lo has
escuchado, te recomiendo que busques el cd “Ballads And Blues” en donde
encontrarás un gran tesoro musical, toda una aventura para el sentido auditivo.
Hasta la próxima.
NotaRock: Un saludo para el Sultán menor, que
se encuentra en la pizca del algodón, cruzando el gran río del norte.
p.d. si deseas obtener estas grabaciones
contacta a este fanzine a carlos@zaldivar.org.mx
LISA SIMPSON (an unofficial biography)
By Goliardmx
Lisa was born in Springfield, U. S., she lived, studied and got famous up there before she moved to Mexico. We don’t know by sure how it was but she became a great writer. This unofficial biography is about how she died. We all know is different from the rest of her family: Homer is a dull, Marge is a classical housewife; Maggy will be a punk and Bart doesn’t count. Lisa is a fantastic cartoon character, why she had a tragic end?
At age of 22 Lisa published her first novel. This book is about failure, loneliness and defeat; the subject was inspired by his own father. Immediately became a success, sold over a million copies. Suddenly big money enters in the Simpson’s family. Homer was happy as never before, Bart thought quit the series so just hanging around. At first, Lisa was satisfied but then she got sad. She didn’t like the way things got.
Lisa was getting sad and sad; she forgot the world and started to drink. She hid herself in a dusty town in Mexico, where I met her, and wrote other books. Years after, she was found dead by overdoses of alcohol. I was the last one to see her alive. The night before she dead we were drinking and talking about much shit. She liked tequila and Mexican beers: she expected to die at any time, she was hopeful to become a human but I told her that would be a misfortune. I shouldn’t say that, she was already miserable.
If I write this biography is not just because a sense of duty. I want to tell the world that she wrote many others fantastic books. You really should read it. I was very lucky to met her, I thing she will be called the best American writer of XXI Century.
ROCK BLESSES YOU!