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yes, this title it’s right. It occurred to me as a kind of healing for this end of the year. Something that encourages the feeling that we are not alone, like in the times of cholera. Let it be a sign that there are human reserves, like the one that relieved our parents of everything, only…
Here we understand by hero
and there have been a thousand, to an eminent personage who embodies the essence of the key attributes valued in their culture of origin. Commonly our hero possesses idealized intellectual, physical, and exemplary behavioral personality abilities that allow him to accomplish distinguished deeds.
There are heroes of various types. The one referred to in these pages is the civil hero, the one who yesterday served the national interest with greatness.
However, today admirable beings, civic heroes, are absent from public life; It was not like that in the immediate past or in the distant past. Almost concurrent then were: Pablo González Casanova, Carlos Payán, Ifigenia Martínez, Manuel Gómez Morín, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, Jesús Kumate, Rosario Green, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo, Miguel León-Portilla, Enrique González Pedrero , Teodoro Césarman.
And they continue: Manuel Tello, Sergio García Ramírez, Octavio Paz, Jorge Carpizo, Elena Poniatowska, Julio Scherer, Diego Valadez, Samuel Ruiz, Carlos Castillo Peraza, Beatriz Paredes, Víctor Flores Olea, Xavier Wimer, Jesús Reyes Heroles, Heberto Castillo and we could surpass the epic thousand heroes if our study were less centrist.
Here we invite you to think about a group of great men inscribed in history. It is possible to say that the heroes already mentioned, no matter how determining their moment and circumstance, would have as a common factor great patriotism, talent, courage and thus they gained their historical record.
Human beings, their virtues and defects, are similar, it is their vital moment that transforms them into heroes or villains. The variable is who and with what spirit their episode was written about.
As always, official historians write a narrative and assessment that is rarely impartial, since they are paid to write. How do they want it? they ask their contractor.
His work is often called the history of bronze
It is the processor of social matter that, attending to interests foreign to the truth, produced the mild Francisco I Madero, the gloomy Carranza and demoted Iturbide. In our case, we call the group the thousand heroes of whom the homeland here was.
In August 2011 I wrote A country without a project is not going anywhere
. We were in the final days of the 2006-12 administration. The country was bewildered. Criminal violence was on the rise.
By resorting to a balm, it was believed that the way to mitigate it was expressed in one phrase: fight drugs. It ended up being the hallmark of that government. Heroic? None, we are already seeing it,
That warlike phrase to combat drugs was the wise, creative limit of that government. It was his masterful slogan.
Today the PAN, its creator, eludes it. Ironically, as an explanation, you could say, well the program didn’t work! Unfortunately it didn’t work because it couldn’t work. I just wasn’t going there. Did any candidate for hero emerge from this?
To general regret, Peña Nieto’s government, splendorous, brilliant, with a Televisa design, did not work either. It ended up being just a residue. That antihero has been safe in peninsular, Canary or Dominican lands, which are his homes, where he exhibits his frivolity.
Fortunately, the soft homeland is not therefore limited. There were many heroes before and there will be after, the difficult thing is to locate them. We would be facing a difficult challenge if we had to choose a candidate for hero from among the 10 past cases, from López Mateos to Peña Nieto, from 1952 to 2023. The first one named was a terrible repressor and about the last one there would be nothing to add to his ruinous memory.
The judgment on the 2018-24 period will be dual, negative or positive, but terrible, cruel, but because it is intense, clouded by passions, that is why it is still too early to settle it. He liked the noise, he handled the storm with ease, he created, he risked, he invented, he improvised, he lied. We’ll see what’s left. We’ll see what’s left.
So, what would be our model of the desired hero? The soft homeland for the moment does look haggard and painted. We have plenty of country, it seems. There is no shortage of people, yes there are, but it is difficult for us to find them. Those that I call here civilian heroes have not been repeated, who were heroes not only for what they did, but for being.
The world is tense, Mexico does not see clearly, we need a thousand more heroes and yes, if there are any, the past did not consume them. Little is asked of these actors: only that they be calm, clear-minded, knowledgeable about the system, creative, effective and honest. On time!
