In Mexico the presidential election of the next June 2nd They will have a unique place in national history. For the first timein our country, a woman will be the President of the Mexican Republic. A transformation of Mexican political culture that consolidates freedom and equality between each and everyone. The freedom of vote of each Mexican and Mexican will decide which woman will be elected. And that freedom will consolidate the gender equality in Mexican society.
Nothing and no one should interfere with the freedom and equality of citizens. Most of the votes will decide who will direct the public in Mexico. There are some lines published here, in EL DEBATE, that should not be forgotten, where we come from as a nation and society.
From the poet
Allow me, kind reader, 13 days away from choice of the next June 2nd“to quote the Mexican poet, Octavio Pazwho describes us “children of Chingada”. And, he concludes by making a difference with those who arrived, “their fucking mother’s children” (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote of La Mancha, Chapter 52, Of the goatherds). Here is the quote from Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, Chapter IV:
IN OUR daily language there is a group of forbidden, secret words, without clear content, and whose magical ambiguity we entrust the expression of the most brutal or subtle of our emotions and reactions…
Each country has its own. In ours, in its brief and torn, aggressive, sparkling syllables, similar to the momentary light that the knife throws when it is discharged against an opaque and hard body, all our appetites, our anger, our enthusiasms and the longings that we They fight in our background, unexpressed. That word is our watchword…Knowing it, using it, throwing it in the air like a colorful toy or making it vibrate like a sharp weapon, is a way of affirming our Mexicanness.
All the anguishing tension that inhabits us is expressed in a phrase that comes to our mouths when anger, joy or enthusiasm leads us to exalt our condition as Mexicans: Long live Mexico, children of the Chingada! …
With that cry, which is mandatory to shout every September 15, anniversary of independence, we affirm ourselves and our country, in front of, against and despite others. And who are the others? The rest are the “sons of the chingada”: the foreigners, the bad Mexicans, our enemies, our rivals. In any case, the “others”. That is, all those who are not what we are…
Who is Chingada? Above all, she is the Mother. She is not a flesh and blood Mother, but a mythical figure. La Chingada is one of the Mexican representations of Motherhood, like La Llorona or the “suffering Mexican mother” that we celebrate on May 10. La Chingada is the mother who has suffered, metaphorically or actually, the corrosive and slanderous action implicit in the verb that gives her name…
In Mexico the meanings of the word are innumerable. It is a magical voice…There are as many nuances as there are intonations: as many meanings as there are feelings. You can be a chingón, a Gran Chingón (in business, in politics, in crime, with women), a chingaquedito (silent, concealed, plotting in the shadows, advancing cautiously to deliver the blow), a chingoncito . But the plurality of meanings does not prevent the idea of aggression – in all its degrees, from the simple of bothering, stinging, hurting, to that of raping, tearing and killing – from always being presented as an ultimate meaning. The verb denotes violence, leaving oneself and forcibly penetrating another…
After this digression, the question can be answered: What is Chingada? La Chingada is the open Mother, violated or mocked by force. The “son of Chingada” is the spawn of rape, kidnapping or mockery. If you compare this expression with the Spanish one, “son of a bitch”, you immediately notice the difference. For the Spaniard, dishonor consists of being the son of a woman who voluntarily gives herself, a prostitute; For the Mexican, it is the result of rape.
Paragraphs: Of freedom
That is mestizaje and we are Mexicans. Democracy has made us free citizens of a country with human rights. We cannot allow authoritarian regression. Because it would return us to being bastards, since they would violate our freedom.” (THE DEBATE, 12/Oct/2022).
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