sailornyanko
September 17th, 2008, 10:20 PM
I'm sad to see this news hasn't been given any notice in American news media. You see, in Mexico we kinda have 2 independance days (15,16 of September) because the Grito of Hildalgo was in the wee hours of the night so it made sense to have the official independance date late at night on the 15th, so even today we sorta have the grito at 11 pm on the 15th, get drunk and party and still have another freebe day off work to recover from the hangover.
On the grito, the president, govenors and even local mayors all over the country do their representation of the grito on the public plazas of their respective ruling entitites and it gets filled with people partying and stuff. I've never actually gone to one in person because the people I hang out with the most don't care about those things, but it would be cool to some year in the future to do it.
Anyhow, unfortunately in the plaza of the capitol city of the state of Michoacán, a terrorist used the perfect opportunity that the plaza was filled with thousands of unsuspecting people to drop a grenade that killed 7 and injured over 100 people (there was a second grenade that blew up outside of the plaza just 10 minutea after). The grenade blew up right when the govenor of Michoacán finished the grito speech and the fiewworks were starting to blow and so nobody realized anything until over an hour later.
So far the government hasn't found out who did it (it's the first time something of the sort has ever happened), but they know it was from a grenade because they found the trigger thing in both crime scenes. Some of the news say it's the narcos, but I don't buy it, the narcos either kill eachother or the militares or cops, they don't get involved with civilians with no political gain. I think it's a group of extremist mexican terrorists that want to cause anarchy to discredit Felipe (Michoacan is the president's home state).
Now, how in the hell did the terrorists get grenades, that's the real question. Mexico has stringent gun owning laws and you just can't go to a Liverpool and ask them to sell you one. Either they bought it in the black market, stole it or got it somehow from the military.
I also believe that the thing could have happened in the Zocalo square in Mexico City, but because AMLO said some government threats about he was going to do his own grito on the square (hilarious BTW because nobody paid any attention to him), Felipe ordered the military to be standing guard and to put metal detectors. It would be a shame that from now on they are going to have to have military people in every square and install metal detectors in every plaza next year for this.
So far, the three parties condemmned the acts, and the government has put a high priority into solving the case. Sadly, I do think the attacks have caused people to become panicky for no reason. My classmates were scared to death of going out to the Oxxo to buy something to drink. I could understand if it was because the neighborhood we were in isn't exactly the safest place ever and you can get mugged, but because there's going to be a terrorist bomber in the street? Meh. I went alone and came back in one piece 10 minutes later.
Oh, here's a video of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tAcc0WLjE
In spanish sorry, but it's a very interesting article about the experiences of one of the victims that got injured and survived:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/538931.html
On the grito, the president, govenors and even local mayors all over the country do their representation of the grito on the public plazas of their respective ruling entitites and it gets filled with people partying and stuff. I've never actually gone to one in person because the people I hang out with the most don't care about those things, but it would be cool to some year in the future to do it.
Anyhow, unfortunately in the plaza of the capitol city of the state of Michoacán, a terrorist used the perfect opportunity that the plaza was filled with thousands of unsuspecting people to drop a grenade that killed 7 and injured over 100 people (there was a second grenade that blew up outside of the plaza just 10 minutea after). The grenade blew up right when the govenor of Michoacán finished the grito speech and the fiewworks were starting to blow and so nobody realized anything until over an hour later.
So far the government hasn't found out who did it (it's the first time something of the sort has ever happened), but they know it was from a grenade because they found the trigger thing in both crime scenes. Some of the news say it's the narcos, but I don't buy it, the narcos either kill eachother or the militares or cops, they don't get involved with civilians with no political gain. I think it's a group of extremist mexican terrorists that want to cause anarchy to discredit Felipe (Michoacan is the president's home state).
Now, how in the hell did the terrorists get grenades, that's the real question. Mexico has stringent gun owning laws and you just can't go to a Liverpool and ask them to sell you one. Either they bought it in the black market, stole it or got it somehow from the military.
I also believe that the thing could have happened in the Zocalo square in Mexico City, but because AMLO said some government threats about he was going to do his own grito on the square (hilarious BTW because nobody paid any attention to him), Felipe ordered the military to be standing guard and to put metal detectors. It would be a shame that from now on they are going to have to have military people in every square and install metal detectors in every plaza next year for this.
So far, the three parties condemmned the acts, and the government has put a high priority into solving the case. Sadly, I do think the attacks have caused people to become panicky for no reason. My classmates were scared to death of going out to the Oxxo to buy something to drink. I could understand if it was because the neighborhood we were in isn't exactly the safest place ever and you can get mugged, but because there's going to be a terrorist bomber in the street? Meh. I went alone and came back in one piece 10 minutes later.
Oh, here's a video of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tAcc0WLjE
In spanish sorry, but it's a very interesting article about the experiences of one of the victims that got injured and survived:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/538931.html