Tsikbal: from my perspective

It's somewhat ironic that society expects the President to meddle with the Judicial system, but at the same time society asks of him to solve problems that are not in his hands. What we can ask the President to do, is to let the Judicial branch of government to do it's work without interference from the Executive branch. The procurement of justice is not in the hands of the President, he is only in charged of executing whatever he deems necessary to the betterment of the country. There is a need to understand that in our political system, each power has certain powers and responsibilities. Therefore, depending on what need is to be meet is to what branch of the government is the one we ought to look at to make things happen in order to find a solution. We live in a system made in a way that no single person or entity concentrates to much power. So, different powers and responsibilities are vested on different persons or institutions. And it's on our best interest that t...

I find it hard to see why there is so little infrastructure work being done to modernize some of the markets at Cuernavaca. The is some real and urgent need to modernize current markets, to bring them to modern safety standards, to make them a lot more hygienic and comfortable to use. But there should be new one built too. With the population increment that has been happening over time, current markets are not enough to meet the needs of the city. The current markets are over crowed, making them unsafe, since they haven't been modernized to meet the increased affluence of costumers attending to them. Also, as the city expands, there is need to build markets at those new locations. It's ridiculous that you can't build markets or general stores to serve those new centers because of the land use laws. There is a lot of changes that need to happen, and most of those changes should have happened already. We need to make things happen, and do it with an eye in the future.

I'm not sure if it's funny or sad the way some people say that it's not right not criticize our elected officials for whatever they do at their post. It may be a mixture of both. I do agree that the criticism should be given in a constructive manner, not doing it just for the sake of it. Most importantly, it should be given with valid arguments of why you don't agree with the way the officials are doing. Also, we need to understand that even though the officials should be open to criticism they don't have to act on it. There are times, when the one doing the criticism doesn't have all the relevant information on the given subject; but still there could still have valid points. It's important to understand that just because someone is in a position of power, doesn't make them right on everything or every time. Therefor, it's important to keep tabs on what, and how, they do things because their actions have an effect on many people. This is specia...

I find myself in a point were I'm thinking why people aren't challenging the way things are done around them. It seems that as a society, we expect that someone else to do something to fix things. Even though part of the solution is our own responsibility, many are afraid to do something about it. We need to understand that, if we want to things to get fixed, we need to do our part to fix what need to fixed. Not doing something about what is going on, makes us part of the problem. Even if we blame someone else, things will remain the same. Also, we shouldn't do things expecting to be rewarded. We need to do them, because it has to be done. The reward should be that you did what had to be done, when it had to be done. But, we are not doing things because we expect someone else to do something about it.

As much as Mexico's democracy has advance since the mid-1990's, there is long road ahead. Society at large is more aware, and is a lot more participative in a wider range of aspects of our democratic life, but sometimes it show that most people don't really inform them selves about whatever they might be interested in more than the basics. On many cases, they just know whatever a single source told them. This attitude is troublesome to me, because this makes the people more vulnerable to be swayed as the one handling the informations wants them to. If we want to avoid this, is important to use as many sources as you can. And to try to look beyond of what you are being told. Objectiveness will always be relative, since we all filter informations trough the lens of our values and what we believe in. This is why, if we want our democracy to grow and mature, we need to try to compare and contrast our ideas and beliefs with the one's of other's. No ones has the abso...

I've been thinking about what mobile phone I should get to replace my current mobile phone. So far, I've decided that my next mobile phone should run Android. What I like the most about Android, is that is open source and that it's Linux based. Linux is my favorite operating system, that makes Android specially enticing for me. The only thing now, is what handset should I get. For the time being, I've narrowed down my list of choices to handsets from Motorola, htc, or Samsung. I still need to do some research, but as far as I'm concerned, this three manufactures offer the handsets that are more akin to my needs. I really want to make sure my next handset runs on open source software, since then both my computer and handset would run on open source. Currently, I run Ubuntu on my laptop. So, moving to an Android based handset is a natural move for me, since both Android and Ubuntu are Linux based. It's just a matter of time.

Sometimes, is rather frustrating to see how the infrastructure projects are handled at Cuernavaca, and Morelos as a whole. It seems that in one hand, the government isn't capable of explaining itself about how the project being proposed would come about. Most importantly, the whole process is not as transparent and open to the public as it should be. Key information is often hidden, and when it's asked for is denied for the wrong reasons. The people who handle those projects don't seem to understand that since these are public projects built with public funds, all the information that comes with it needs to be open to the general public. These includes costs, papers about environmental impact, and all relevant documents of the project. On the part of society, what frustrates me is the fact that instead of making sure that the projects being proposed and build are the one needed are dead set of preventing anything new is being built or enhanced. What worse, there seems t...