Intellectuals: Eliminating poverty should be priority in Mexico

Sunday 29 November, 09:15 PM GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - The best way to celebrate 200 years of independence and 100 years of the revolution in Mexico is a new and comprehensive educational reform, the eradication of poverty, the promotion of justice and recognition of diversity, several intellectuals agreed on Sunday. In addition we should look critically what were the mistakes that have made the country one behind economically, recognize the strengths and consider an actual project in the future, without garnish with utopias. In this coincided Carlos Fuentes, Enrique Florescano and Rafael Rojas Cuban author during a forum on the identity of Mexicans, sponsored in the framework of the International Book Fair of Guadalajara. "Dates … before urgirnos to celebrate, impose a moral obligation to remember truthfully what Mexicans acted in those 200 years of history "and laid the foundations of the nation, although it is" shaky, "said Florescano. Since then, he said that even today are the same aspirations for participatory democracy, equity, and that poor minorities have a better quality of life, so it should focus towards the authorities. Florescano, historian and professor, also sees a panorama "cloudy" to the ephemeris, because since a few months ago that created the commission to organize the celebrations, has had four presidents and a project lacks "substantive" in coordination with governments and municipal and state entities, while legislators and political parties have also left out of the equation, he complained. The indigenous ethnic minorities can not remain a forgotten social and political project for the future, as happened after independence, when it sought to homogenize the population, he said. For their part, sources said that as expected every 100 years "Mexico will move" but not violently, but "we give priority to education, justice and pluralism." The author of "The Air Is Clear" and "The Buried Mirror "said it was time to ask questions such as what options are ignored before and that can be taken to shape the future differently, how to avoid falling into ostracism and _muy important as how destacó_ not confuse" the real with the possible "and" ignorance with boldness. "" With a very divided country with very weak structures and political parties no reliable public figures with less than reliable … we must also remember everything we could be "and to aim at that. Average (Not Rated)