Nowadays, online activism is an important concept, specially when we are talking about elections. Here's the link to a Prezi that explains a Russian iniciative regarding its past elections,called Kartanarusheniy
In the last decade, China has experimented important changes regarding education, Sanitary systems or even contamination . However, the increase of population and the critical polical situation, slowed down all these processes. As a consequence of it, Chinese people seem that they live in 15th century more than in 21th.
“In Ciudad
Juárez there is no Law that creates Justice, no Law that punishes”
This sentence, whichmay sound likedialoguefrom a movie,is nowadays a sad reality.The worstpart of itis thatit was said by a drug dealer (Carla Ramírez Fernando) from Ciudad Juárez (México).
Beyond beingthe eighthlargest city inMexico, CiudadJuárez hasbeena “trend” inmedia (both national and international) bythe number of deaths, mostof themrough,related todrug cartels. This city, which borders withthe United States, isa focal pointfor the passageof narcotics betweenthe USAand Mexico. As a consequence of this, in its neighborhoodshave settledthe most dangerousbandsrelated tothe drug trafficking world, the so-calledcartels, which had continuous battles -in the strict
senseof the word-leaving behindtensor even hundreds oftotally innocentdead people .
While public institutionsaremaking a superhuman effortto reduce violence, and ultimatelythe death toll, there is stillmuch work to do.
Onlyin 2012,1974 people died, data thatmay seemscandalous, but comparing it tothe number of deathsin 2010-3115- isa relief.
As it
canbeexpected, thisunpleasantsituationadversely affectsthedaily lives ofthe citizens ofthis town innorthern district ofChihuahua.Since2009,as
stated bythe
Mexican newspaper"La
Tercera",people from Ciudad
Juárez have had to closea 40% of barsand restaurants in thecity(between300 and4,000).The causes ofthis decline which not only affectthe hospitality industry,but also education, tourismand especiallypopulationrates are easily recognizable:looting, kidnapping andextortion bythe cartels.
Every death,every kidnap ,
containsa personal story.Stories which eveninvolveminors , as in thecase of the teenager GloriaRivasMartínez
Principal Cartels and their location in México. Source: bbc.co.uk
Teenagers are not spared
WhenGloriaRivasMartinezdisappeared onOctober 26, 2002,she only
was 16years old.As it happens in most ofthe disappearancesof women in CiudadJuarez,her bodywas found in afield outsidethe city,with obvioussigns of violence.Parallelto thisis thedisappearance, it happened the
disappearance ofMaría IsabelMejíaSapien, which occurredjust 3 monthsafter the first. Both workedin the same business, "The Star", although indifferentbranches.This business hasbeenrepeatedlyinvestigatedfor possible involvementwith the cartels.On these twocases ,it have runmany rumors, oneof the most famous,and which ended in thepages of the localnewspaper"El Norte" was thatRivaswaskidnappedand held forseveral days inone of the "headquarters"of cartels,more specificallyin the westpart of Ciudad Juarez.
Caseslike thesehappen every day.The drug problemis very complex,and morein South America,where it isfully expanded.International community shouldcome togetherwithnational, to eradicate thisproblem, regardless ofthe coststhat may ensue.More than 1000deathsper year area drama,and more in recent times.
