Voz de profeta

Hoy por la tarde, la noticia empezó a correr como reguero de pólvora:

"Fidel Castro ha delegado, con carácter provisional, los cargos de Primer Secretario del Partido Comunista, presidente del Consejo de Estado y Comandante en Jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas en su hermano Raúl, segundo hombre del régimen y actual ministro de Fuerzas Armadas, debido a una operación quirúrgica tras sufrir una crisis intestinal. Castro, según un comunicado leído en la televisión cubana, ha sufrido una crisis intestinal con hemorragia que le ha obligado a ser sometido a una complicada operación quirúrgica. Fidel Castro cumplirá el 13 de agosto 80 años y está al frente del Gobierno de Cuba desde 1959.

"La crisis, de acuerdo con el comunicado al parecer elaborado por el propio Castro y leído por su jefe de despacho, Carlos Valenciaga, le sobrevino por el "enorme esfuerzo" realizado durante su reciente visita a Argentina para participar en la Cumbre de Mercosur y su intervención en los actos por el aniversario del asalto al cuartel Moncada tras su vuelta a La Habana. La operación, continúa el texto, "me obliga a permanecer varias semanas de reposo alejado de mis responsabilidades y cargos".

Llama la atención que Castro haya vaticinado que su salud no estaba al 100 por ciento.

Un total de 53 años después de asaltar el Cuartel Moncada, Fidel Castro llegó ayer a la ciudad oriental de Bayamo para pronunciar un discurso marcado por dos aniversarios redondos: el de los 50 años del desembarco del yate Granma, que supuso el inicio de la lucha guerrillera contra el régimen de Fulgencio Batista, y el de su 80º cumpleaños -el 13 de agosto-, en momentos en que el tema de su sucesión cobra actualidad tanto dentro como fuera de la isla. "Que no se preocupen los vecinitos del norte, que no pretendo ejercer mi cargo hasta los 100 años", bromeó Castro.

'Zombies' arrested in downtown Minneapolis

Six friends spruced up in fake blood and tattered clothing were arrested in downtown Minneapolis on suspicion of toting "simulated weapons of mass destruction." Police said the group were allegedly carrying bags with wires sticking out, making it look like a bomb, while meandering and dancing to music as part of a "zombie dance party" Saturday night.

31 años de Playboy en Brasil

Las muertes en Medio Oriente

El Mini-Shaq en el Pasagüero

El Mini-Shaq ensayaba pasitos de baile aparentemente muy guapachosos. Pero no sólo eso, llevaba sus zapatos brillosos, chaqueta y lentes reflejantes tipo Michael Jackson ochetero y sus pantalones de chuntarito. Le pregunté que sucedía y él sólo me dijo que estaba casi listo para ir mañana al Pasagüero

Campañas Axe

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Los 25 mejores momentos de MTV, según AP

From Beavis to Britney: 25 memorable moments on MTV's 25th anniversary
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- No one knows how to throw a party like MTV. So there must
be quite a bash planned for Aug. 1, celebrating 25 years on the air. Right?
Sorry. MTV is staying in that night. There are no plans to even mention
the birthday.
When your average viewer is 20 years old -- too young to remember Martha
Quinn, not even born when Madonna buckled on her "boy toy" belt -- perhaps
it's wise not to mention you're 25. MTV wants to be the perpetual adolescent.
On a relentless mission to stay hip, MTV casually discards generations.
Yesterday, "Beavis and Butt-head." Today, "Laguna Beach."
And at each stop, MTV changes pop culture.
Without MTV, you might not have reality television. Commercials wouldn't
have vertigo-inducing quick cuts. Musicians wouldn't need to look like models
to survive. Kelly Osbourne wouldn't have gotten near a recording studio. And
only seamstresses would know about wardrobe malfunctions.
Our birthday present is a look back at 25 memorable MTV moments:
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1. THE DEBUT: Aug. 1, 1981. The first video? The slyly prophetic "Video
Killed the Radio Star" by the now-forgotten Buggles. Only a few thousand
people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.
Sometimes the screen would go black when someone at MTV inserted a tape into
a VCR. Within a few years, millions of kids demanded their parents buy cable
so they could see MTV. Along with CNN, it led TV's transition out of the
three-channel world. "This was the fuse that lit the cable explosion," said
Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.
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2. BEAT IT: March 31, 1983. Michael Jackson becomes the first black artist
with a video on MTV. The segregation was MTV's early shame, ironic
considering its later role in popularizing rap. And the early snub wasn't
forgotten: "You don't have all of music television when you are leaving
things out," says Los Lonely Boys singer Henry Garza.
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3. THRILLER: Dec. 2, 1983. Less a video than a 14-minute mini-movie with
Vincent Price, ghouls and goblins, the premiere of Jackson's "Thriller" was
an event. MTV gave it a set time on the schedule -- several, even. It was the
apotheosis of the idea of music videos as an art form. With director John
Landis involved, it also was proof that Hollywood's finest weren't looking
down upon what are essentially promo clips.
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4. MADONNA BUSTS OUT: Sept. 14, 1984. Performing "Like a Virgin" at the
first Video Music Awards, Madonna popped out of a cake dressed in a wedding
gown and writhed through her hit. At that moment, Madonna became a superstar,
put the VMAs on the map and set an enduring tone. Who cares about those ugly
"moon man" trophies? What matters is making the audience gasp.
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5. MONEY FOR NOTHING: 1985. The Dire Straits song was about MTV, mocked
MTV and became the band's biggest hit because of MTV. It was one of the first
videos to feature computer animation, and Sting made a clever cameo echoing
his role in iconic "I want my MTV" ads. The rules for music stardom had
changed. Being photogenic was now crucial; an eye-catching video made hits.
"It was America's first national radio network," says record executive Phil
Quartararo.
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6. BYE-BYE VJs: Original video jock J.J. Jackson's contract expired in
1985. Nina Blackwood followed him out the next year and so did Martha Quinn,
breaking the hearts of countless teenage boys. Alan Hunter and Mark Goodman
were next. Only Adam Curry lasted into the '90s. MTV refused to follow its
aging first fans, courting teens instead. It also realized that airing videos
was a dead end and began aggressively developing other programming. Those
were probably the most important financial decisions MTV ever made.
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7. SPRING BREAK: March 21, 1985: College students who couldn't make it
south in person could turn on MTV to catch the party. Each year it returns, a
drunken bash with young, firm, scantily clad bodies oozing with sweat and
undulating to the music. Stop us! We need a cold shower. "There were people
who looked like they were having sex on the dance floor," VJ Suzie Castillo
says about last year's festivities in Cancun. MTV's spring break coverage
arguably gave rise to the "Girls Gone Wild" video series, where the breasts
didn't need to be pixelated.
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8. RAP BLASTS OFF: Aug. 6, 1986. It's no coincidence that "Yo! MTV
Raps!" premiered about the same time rap started becoming the dominant music
form for young America. Hip white kids like Rick Rubin or the Beastie Boys
may have loved rap before, but "Yo! MTV Raps!" brought it into every
suburban living room. "Going from the network that was called on the carpet
for not having blacks to this was a huge leap, and it was the right one for
MTV," says Christina Norman, MTV's first black president.
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9. PEE-WEE'S RETURN: Sept. 5, 1991. It was a hard fall for Pee-wee Herman,
from star of one of television's most popular kids' shows to a national punch
line when an undercover officer saw him masturbating in an adult theater.
Herman went undercover himself for more than a month until creeping out
onstage at the opening of that year's VMAs. "Heard any good jokes lately?"
Herman asked, to howls of laughter.
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10. ENTER GRUNGE: Sept. 29, 1991: Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
video killed the hair metal scene and signaled the ascendancy of grunge. The
images themselves were an arresting accent, with the tattooed cheerleaders
and what seemed like an underwater pep rally in a dank gymnasium. "The band,
the sound and the imagery in the video was sort of a breath of fresh air -- or
a scream," said MTV series development guru Tony DiSanto.
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11. CLAPTON UNPLUGGED: March 11, 1992. Only the most desperate of fading
1980s bands -- Nuclear Valdez, Squeeze, the Alarm -- responded to MTV's first
requests to show off their acoustic chops. But fans responded to the intimacy
and stars soon lined up: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Bruce
Springsteen (who got nervous and insisted on an electric guitar) -- and Eric
Clapton, in his first performance since his son died after falling from a
skyscraper window. "Everybody who was there felt something special was going
on," says Van Toffler, president of MTV's music services. Clapton had to be
talked into releasing the show on CD, and it became his biggest-selling
album.
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12. BOXERS OR BRIEFS?: April 19, 1994. Two years in office, President
Clinton submitted to 90 minutes of questions on complex policy issues by
16-to-20-year-olds before a live MTV audience. Everything else was forgotten
when 17-year-old Laetitia Thompson of Potomac, Md., asked: "Mr. President,
the world's dying to know. Is it boxers or briefs?" "Usually briefs," the
president replied, looking slightly non-plussed. Today, most presidential
candidates use MTV to reach first-time voters.
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13. HEH-HEH. COOL: March 24, 1994: Who'd have thunk that "Beavis and
Butt-head" would make the cover of Rolling Stone? When Toffler received a
pilot tape of two adolescent cartoon characters playing baseball with a frog,
he watched it nearly 100 times. "You have a feeling in your bones that
there's something different about it that's unique and it will either flop
miserably or succeed brilliantly." It was stupid, gross-out humor -- but many
older people secretly wished they could act that way.
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14. REALITY BITES: June 23, 1994. It's hard to recall a time when setting
up a group of strangers in a camera-filled home was a new idea. But the 1992
debut of "The Real World" "invented reality TV," says Thompson. "It's
absolutely ground zero." And the inclusion of Pedro Zamora, who was gay and
soon to die of AIDS, in the 1994 season did more to promote tolerance than
hundreds of public service announcements. "It was probably the most riveting
piece of television I had ever seen," says Brian Graden, then a young, gay
man and now an MTV programming exec. "I had never seen someone like myself
reflected back to me ... it really changed things for a whole generation of
gay people."
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15. FEEDBACK LOOP: April 14, 1998: Jesse Camp wins the first "I Wanna Be
a VJ" contest. Stuck in a rut, MTV was searching for some way to make its
audience feel connected to the network. The wild-haired, willfully outrageous
Camp seemed sent from central casting, and it was the audience doing the
casting.
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16. TIMES SQUARE LIVE: Oct. 22, 1998. The Backstreet Boys shut down Times
Square during a "Total Request Live" appearance. The ruckus cemented
"TRL's" role as pop culture's home page, with Justin Timberlake and Britney
Spears as king and queen of the new scene.
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17. JIGGLE IT: Sept. 9, 1999. When Lil' Kim presented a VMA with a
pasty-clad breast, Diana Ross couldn't resist a playful fondle. Lucky Ross
wasn't there eight years earlier, when Prince performed wearing pants with
the butt cut out. A year later, Howard Stern parodied that look by descending
from the sky as "Fartman."
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18. TIPSY: Oct. 1, 2000. Thinking about "Jackass" Johnny Knoxville
getting tipped over in the port-a-potty still makes you hold your nose.
Knoxville specialized in painful on-camera tricks, and "Jackass" quickly
became MTV's most popular show. Unfortunately for MTV -- or maybe fortunately
if there's no such thing as bad publicity -- many stunts were copied by
viewers.
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19. MARIAH'S MELTDOWN: July 19, 2001. No one knew quite how to react when
Carey made a surprise appearance on "TRL" pushing an ice cream cart filled
with popsicles. A nervous Carson Daly kept trying to cut to a commercial, but
Carey wouldn't stop talking. She said she had a gift for him -- then took off
her oversized T-shirt to reveal a tight tank top and skimpy shorts. A week
later Carey was checked into a hospital for "extreme exhaustion."
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20. $#..!: March 5, 2002: Sharrrr-rronnnn! The first bleeped-out swear
word on "The Osbournes" premiere was followed by 58 others. For a while,
the foggy-headed rocker, his type-A wife and self-involved kids became
America's first family, if only for the sheer weirdness of their life. They
quickly wore thin -- and were responsible for a rash of dull has-beens who
thought their lives would make great television -- but not before Sharon got
her own talk show, daughter Kelly a recording contract and son Jack a stint
in rehab.
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21. DOGGING EMINEM: Aug. 29, 2002: The rap star was in no mood to hear
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog chew over his feud with Moby. So when approached
by the puppet on the VMAs, Eminem delivered a sucker punch and then flew into
a rage backstage. "He was really furious," said MTV executive vice
president Dave Sirulnick, "which was startling because here was this guy who
built his career on dissing and dishing. And this was a puppet."
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22. ASHTON PUNKS JUSTIN: March 17, 2003. "Candid Camera" with an edge,
the debut of Kutcher's series "Punk'd" had a crew posing as the "Tax
Enforcement Agency" seizing Justin Timberlake's possessions after saying he
owed $900,000 (euro706,600) in back taxes. The title is now ensconced in the
popular lexicon.
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23. CHICKEN OR TUNA?: Aug. 19, 2003. "Newlyweds" followed the telegenic
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey as they navigated marital bliss. They truly
became famous when cameras caught Simpson confused by whether a can of
Chicken of the Sea contained tuna. Presto! America had a new favorite dim
blonde.
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24. THE KISS: Aug. 28, 2003. It was MTV's idea to bring back Madonna for a
reprise of "Like a Virgin" for the 20th video music awards, and MTV's idea
to pair her with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. The open-mouthed kiss
that she planted on the two young stars? That was pure Madonna, and it
outranked the creepy Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley for most
memorable kiss.
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25. STEPHEN & LC: Nov. 26, 2004. Viewers were gripped by the love triangle
on new MTV hit "Laguna Beach," and Kristin's partying on spring break in
this episode temporarily cost her her boyfriend. MTV's original idea was a
reality version of "Beverly Hills 90210," but they ended up with a reality
version of "The O.C." instead. The real-life soap opera breaks convention
by unfolding slowly, with none of the reality TV cliches like confessional
interviews. "Again," Thompson says, "MTV is two steps ahead."
AP-NY-07-27-06 2033EDT

Uncensored 'On the Road' to be published

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" will be published in its unedited original scroll version by Viking Press, which published the Beat Generation classic in September 1957.

John Sampas, executor of the writer's literary estate and brother of Stella Sampas, Kerouac's third wife, said he has signed a contract with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. He hopes the work will be out by the end of next year, the 50th anniversary of the publication.

"Incidents in the original were edited out of the published version because of the censorship of the time," said Sampas, who noted that some of the edited sections refer to drugs and sex. "On the scroll, entire paragraphs are crossed out and not included in the published version."

Sampras said the new version will be in book form, but taken from the original scroll. Any sections Kerouac had crossed out before turning it into the publisher will be excluded in the new edition.

In 1951, Kerouac, hopped up on coffee and Benzedrine, sat at a typewriter and began retelling the tale of an aimless trek he made across America. In a spontaneous, stream-of-consciousness burst, he typed on long sheets of tracing paper, taping each finished page to the previous one to form one continuous, rolling text.

Published six years later, "On the Road" won critical praise and became an icon of the post-World War II subculture of intellectuals, writers, musicians and rebels who identified with the freedom of Kerouac's cross-country odyssey and embraced his disdain for 1950s conformity.

The original, 120-foot, coffee-stained scroll that is yellowing with age was purchased in 2001 by James Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, for $2.43 million. The scroll is touring U.S. museums and libraries. (Ap)

Cautivante

Dancer Fang-Yi Sheu from Taiwan performs sketches from 'Chronicle' in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. It is the start of the US Martha Graham Dance Company's, NY, European tour. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

Murdoch sobre John McCain

"I like him very much. He's a great natural hero and he talks a lot of sense. I do not agree with him on everything, but he's a fine man. He would make a fine president."

How much political power does he wield personally? "It is overstated. We can do things to help set the agenda, starting debates going in newspapers, having investigations by Fox News."

Afghanistan? No, way

Afghanistan? No, way

¿Qué estarías dispuesto a hacer con tal de no ir a una guerra? Nate Lopez tuvo una solución radical a la pregunta. Se negaba abandonar su casa y amigos de toda la vida. ¿Morir en Afganistán? ¿Buscar talibanes? Ni hablar, pensó el buen Nate. Por ello, pidió una difícil tarea a Jon Atkins, uno de sus incondicionales.

When you were young

He escuchado varias veces el nuevo sencillo de The Killers, When you were young y cada vez que lo pongo me parece mejor, aunque obviamente si suena raro el estilo de rock del que se apropiaron en comparación con lo presentado en Hot Fuss.

When you were young

Otra de Bush

Mal y de malas el viaje de Bush a Rusia. No sólo un micrófono abierto lo puso en evidencia al registrar una grosería mientras platicaba con su aliado bélico Tony Blair, ahora se sabe que una cámara detectó al buen George cuando intentó dar un masaje de espalda a la presidenta alemana Angela Merkel. Una imagen dice más que más palabras.

The Dandy Warhols abrirán a los Strokes

Armando, What's Spanish For Hat?

If you guessed that we are playing Spetmeber 2nd in Mexico City with our friends The Strokes you are a winner.

There was no contest, I think that part was a dream. But the rest of it is true.

Palabras duras

Las imágenes en CNN en Español de la movilización de simpatizantes de Andres Manuel López Obrador en el centro de la ciudad de México eran impresionantes. Los grandes medios internacionales retomaron la nota y vi fotos en sus frontales hoy lunes. Me llamó la atención que algunas cabezas hacían pensar que los mexicanos protestaban contra el presunto fraude electoral. Tal y como he visto las cosas en los últimos días, más bien eran simpatizantes de Andrés Manuel López Obrador y quienes se oponen a él cada vez lo repudian más. Seguimos viendo una pugna por el poder entre dos grupos políticos antagonistas que en términos reales tienen un arrastre menos importante de lo que creen. Lo malo es que en su lucha mucha gente sigue tomando posiciones y la polarización se incrementa. Por un lado, preocupan los llamados a la resistencia civil y por el otro las palabras beligerantes del no toleraremos chantajes. Hasta ahora López Obrador no ha hecho nada ilegal ni indebido, y se debería guardar la calma hasta que el Trife dictamine. Sus palabras son arriesgadas y desafiantes, pero no creo que pueda ir contra el Trife. Si no alcanza la victoria, aunque él crea fervientemente que hubo fraude, debe continuar su lucha política como antagonista del PAN y Felipe Calderón, aprovechando el capital político obtenido en las elecciones y meditar si le interesa volver a competir. Y claro, si el Trife le da la victoria u anula la elección, entonces la responsabilidad de ser una oposición coherente y digna estaría en el otro lado.

Voto por voto

"Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidato de la coalición Por el Bien de Todos, advirtió este viernes que no reconocería un eventual triunfo de Calderón en el Tribunal Electoral, pues dijo, la elección estuvo signada por la inequidad.

"No quiere decir que yo acepte el resultado de la elección, me refiero en su contenido, en su esencia. Para mí esta elección es fraudulenta de principio a fin", señaló.

Sin embargo, el tabasqueño dijo que un conteo voto por voto de los sufragios de la elección de Presidente de la República lo empujaría a frenar las movilizaciones sociales.

"Con un conteo voto por voto ya no tendría sentido que siguiera con la movilización", dijo en entrevista radiofónica con la periodista Carmen Aristegui.

López Obrador rechazó que quiera la nulidad de la elección, aunque reiteró que hay elementos suficientes para ello."

Vía Reforma.com

Al Save us?

Al Gore perdió de forma muy polémica las elecciones con George W. Bush en el 2000 y aunque la lucha fue cerrada, muchos atribuyeron su derrota a su imagen acartonada. En 2004, Gore declinó competir y John Kerry cayó con Bush. Casualmente ahora hay quienes piden que piense de nuevo las cosas -sobre todo luego de su documental sobre el medio ambiente- y se lance por la Casa Blanca. De hecho, el diseñador Marc Jacobs lanzó una línea de camisetas y bolsas llamada Al Save Us.



Gore no ha dicho sí, pero si lo intenta cambiaría el panorama actual que perfila a John McCain como puntero en la lucha por la sucesión de Bush.

Detector de mal aliento

Siempre hay motivos para dejar de hablar de la situación política en México y uno de ellos es este parato para dar besos seguros, el llamado Bad Breath Detector:



Tomado de Kiss Me Meter Bad Breath Detector: You Had Eggs For Breakfast?" en Gizmodo

Demagogia

Cada vez que escucho a Felipe Calderón hablando de conciliación me parece que lo hace sólo porque "debe hacerlo".

Cada vez que escucho a Andrés Manuel López Obrador hablando de defender el voto me parece que lo hace sólo porque "debe hacerlo".

Creo que en el cuartel de Calderón deben estar felices y lanzan improperios al Peje y ya que ganaron, aunque sea por unos cuantos votos, no le daran ninguna prerrogativa.

Creo que en el cuartel de López Obrador deben tener el escenario de la derrota y están pensando como administrar su capital político y mantener el liderazgo, lo cual implica mostrarse combativos.

Parece pura demagogia o puro spin.

Ojalá en el camino los panistas no tengan la necesidad de en verdad negociar y apagar un conflicto, pero no tengan interlocutores.

Ojalá en el camino los perredistas no enciendan una llama de inconformidad que no puedan apagar.

Recordatorios

En medio del debate sobre la impugnación de la elección presidencial, leí en el periódico Reforma las columnas de Miguel Angel Granados Chapa y Roberto Zamarripa. En ambas se argumenta que el cauce legal que se ha tomado no es negativo si al final se da certidumbre al voto en una elección muy cerrada. Además ambos hacen recordatorios pertinentes:

- El PAN ha llevado a tribunales la mayoría de las elecciones a gubernaturas que ha perdido, sin que ello haya sido satanizado.

- El PRD argumentó fraude en Oaxaca y agotó las instancias legales para demostrarlo. Finalmente se dio por bueno el triunfo del priísta Ulises Ruíz.

- El PAN realizó movilizaciones y protestas, luego de que los resultados le fueron adversos en Sinaloa.

Los recursos legales poselectorales quizá deban ser vistos como parte de la normalidad demócratica, sobre todo, en elecciones muy cerradas. Lo importante es el respeto del voto sin importar su sentido.

Polarización

No deja de sorprenderme la polarización que causó la batalla electoral entre Felipe Calderón y Andrés Manuel López Obrador. La campaña sucia contra López Obrador y que éste después retomaría contra Calderón fueron factores determinantes para que esto sucediera. La forma en que veo que la gente habla mal del perredista es alarmante no por sus argumentos, sino por el odio con que lo hacen y porque al parecer muchos de ellos ni siquiera votaron por Calderón, sino simplemente contra López Obrador. Durante la campaña un comentarista internacional dijo que no entendía las campñas mexicanas, que si se odiaban tanto los del PAN y el PRD, mejor que se dieran de balazos. Esa declaración suena fuera de lugar, pero es para reflexionar al degradamiento al que llegó la batalla electoral. Lo interesante del resultado de la elección es que se encuentra en el límite de los escenarios posibles. Ante lo cerrado de la elección, la impugnación de la Coalición por el Bien de Todos es lo más natural del mundo y estamos ante la posibilidad de sentar precedentes importantes para casos futuros. Sin embargo, quienes odian a López Obrador no lo veran así y lo rechazarán. Para colmo, en realidad son pocos quienes lo apoyan, así como son pocos los que votaron por Calderón. De cualquier forma, seguir el proceso poselectoral será muy interesante.

Eco del conteo de las elecciones en México

Victor R. Caivano captó muy bien el estado de ánimo de Andrés Manuel López Obrador y una de sus simpatizantes luego de la ventaja que tomo su rival Felipe Calderón en el cómputo de votos de la elección presidencial de México.

La incorrección

Hoy por la mañana leía con gusto The Corrections de Jonathan Franzen, pero mi rutina diaria me obligó a interrumpir la lectura. En el transcurso de la mañana se cruzó una interesante conversación sobre las inconsistencias del PREP que es parte de la maraña de situaciones en que está envuelta la gestación del camino en el corto plazo que tomará México. Comía ansias por volver a The Corrections, pero no pude hacerlo porque ahora la victoria italiana en Dortmund sobre Alemania. Luego de pensarlo un poco pensé en son de broma que parece una incorrección pensar en leer Franzen ante un tema tan importante como el electoral y uno tan popular como el Mundial.

Decepcionante

Es decepcionante que el próximo presidente de México no vaya a conseguir ni siquiera el 40 por ciento de los votos emitidos ayer. Será un presidente débil y tendrá que trabajar mucho para concretar sus propuestas y en caso de alguna crisis, su liderazgo será cuestionado. Esto es fruto, en parte, a la desvinculación entre sociedad y partidos, pero también a la estrategia que tuvieron los candidatos de polarizar al país. De los comentarios más lamentables que he escuchado en días recientes son aquellos en el sentido de que se votaría por un candidato, solo para que otro no llegara a la Presidencia. Es decir que hubo votos no a favor de un candidato, sino en contra de otro. Eso también es parte de la democracia, pero éticamente provoca muchas interrogantes.