“MEXICO AND KURDISTAN FREE EXPRESSION

IS  A CORNERED D0VE”

 Ricardo Gustavo Espeja

“My situation is like a cornered dove” wrote H. Drink days before his announced killing, he was disturbing too much the cracked reinforce concrete of Turkish Establishment , like him Kurdish writers , journalist and editor not only of North Kurdistan colonized by Turkey, in East Kurdistan and in West Kurdistan , with colonial occupation of Iran and Syria the situation is similar. With shades perhaps, Iran and Syria didn`t deny Kurdish identity with pseudo academicals support they want annihilate Kurdish People and begun for the head –Kurdish intellectuality-.

There is a work of oppressive and colonialist regimes, in Mexico the purpose is the same kill any form of critical thinking about society, but the situation is quite different. Writers, journalist and editors try to do the Illustration –Aufklarung in German-pattern of thinking as was defined by I. Kant in his booklet “What is the Illustration”, then, he wrote “Is to release the humankind of their guilty incapacity”. So, it means self determination as human person -Women and Men- individually and as social thus historical subject.

In Mexico a state escape and mined by corruption is impotent for warrant the rights in their own Constitution and that signed in International Agreements such as San Jose de Costa Rica Pact or the United Nations Chart.

Thus the result 30 journalist and writers killed and 6 missing and many others like Lydia Cacho under death threats. In Kurdistan the quantity is big more, but, as said Jorge Luis Borges  to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo “with only one person killed, missing or threaded is sufficient for kill, missing or threat the whole humanity”.

We must fight for free expression in order to people will have freedom of thinking, word , self autonomy in a word a live worthy to be lived.

In this battle all were Kurdish, Mexican or any other nationality that suffer oppression in their right to expression  is no less than a cry for a free humanity.

                                                   Ricardo Gustavo Espeja

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