If all goes well, my Sharpologist article on slants will appear tomorrow morning, an article that I so much wanted to title “Whither Slants?” but was dissuaded by wise counsel. In that article I shall discuss how some things happen in a way that’s analogous to crystallization in a supersaturated solution: for a long time, nothing happens, as the solution grows more saturated, but then! Anything can set it off and once a single crystal forms, it’s, well, every crystal for itself and devil take the hindmost!
That’s what Mexico is like. And the crystal will be the first good leader who emerges: this is a revolution-ripe situation, and the modern-day Zapata may emerge at any time. I begin to grasp the force of the curse, “May you live in interesting times.” The times are quite bad, but they are indeed interesting.
From the McClatchy article by Tim Johnson at the link:
. . . Distrust in state institutions is so high that the Peña Nieto government has turned over key functions of the criminal investigation to foreigners. A group of Argentine forensic scientists has taken part in the excavation of possible grave sites, and recovered bone fragments were sent to a university in Innsbruck, Austria, for DNA comparison with family members.
Peña Nieto, who presided Monday afternoon over the opening of the Ibero-American summit, an annual regional gathering of heads of state, found signs of isolation even at the summit site in Veracruz. The leaders of Argentina and Brazil stayed home, and the arrival of the Cuban and Venezuelan presidents remained iffy.
A parallel event for first ladies and spouses was canceled, apparently because few spouses wanted to share the stage with Mexican first lady Angelica Rivera, an actress ensnared in an influence-buying scandal with a government contractor who has built a mansion for the couple. Queen Letizia of Spain was among those who chose to stay home. . .
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