Rural Musicians In The City

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.

When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Hélder Câmara

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Candies

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
― Christopher Morley

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Flor de Mayo / Mother's Day

From previous posts

Cosmic Mother

Friday Sunbath

Neoliberalism

Rebozo

Hopeless

Atrium

Flor de Agosto

Misty

Flor de Mayo / May Flower

An ounce  of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Spanish Proverb.

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Bird Vendor

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"La pobreza es la peor forma de violencia"
“The mother of revolution and crime is poverty”
Aristotle
"La Madre de la revolucion y el crimen es la pobreza"
Aristoteles
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Gente / People (Series) 2

Street of city downtown
Between 2006 and 2008 the number of poor people increase in 5.9 millions, reaching 50.6 millions, 47.4 % of Mexico population. Ah, but politics are wealthy persons!

Entre 2006 y 2008, los dos primeros años de la actual administración federal, el número de pobres en México aumentó en 5.9 millones de personas, hasta alcanzar 50.6 millones, 47.4 por ciento de la población total del país, según publicó el 18 de julio pasado el Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (Coneval), organismo oficial encargado de la medición de la pobreza en el país.
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Winter Scenes

The Dreams of the Bird Seller

Zocalo / Main Square

Waste collector at Historic Center

Main Square

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Shame

Without hope and asking God for help, education for their children, jobs, health care, security, services don’t provided by the Mexican State, but politicians and catholic hierarchy, they take care of themselves:

May 22, 2006 Issue
Copyright © 2009 The American Conservative.
While the country’s poor flee, Mexico’s elite take care of themselves.
By George W. Grayson
Mexico City—A watchword of Mexican politics is “Show me a politician who is poor and I will show you a poor politician.” In accord with this adage, many Mexican officials enjoy generous salaries and lavish fringe benefits. Even as they live princely lifestyles, they and their fellow elites pay little in taxes and refuse to spend sufficient money on education and health care to create opportunities in Mexico—a country that abounds in oil, natural gas, gold, beaches, fish, water, historic treasures, museums, industrial centers, and hard-working people. Rather than mobilizing these bountiful resources to uplift the poor, Mexico’s privileged class noisily demands that Uncle Sam open his border wider for the nation’s “have nots.”

Mexico’s establishment also keeps quiet about the salaries and benefits that its members receive. Private-sector executives are especially secretive. Thanks to Forbes magazine, however, we know that Mexico leads Latin America with ten billionaires, including telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú, the world’s third richest person with $30 billion. And an increasing amount of data is available on the earnings of public officials. The numbers show that Mexico’s governing class is enriching itself at the country’s expense, with exorbitant salaries and bountiful perks. Remember, these are “official” figures. Most politicians have ingenious ways of fattening their bank accounts.

The salaries of top Mexican government officials match or exceed those of comparable figures in Europe and much of the rest of the world. President Vicente Fox ($236,693), for example, makes more than the leaders of the U.K. ($211,434), France ($95,658), Canada ($75,582), and most other industrialized countries (POTUS earns $400,000).

The 500 members of Mexico’s notoriously irresponsible Chamber of Deputies, which is in session only a few months a year, each made $148,000 last year in salary and bonuses—roughly on a par with Italian and Canadian legislators and substantially more than their counterparts in Germany ($105,000), France ($78,000), and Spain ($32,311), where living costs are markedly higher. Other legislators in Latin America receive substantially less; for example, those in Bolivia earn $28,000 for a four-month session. Legislators in the Dominican Republic take home $68,500 for six months of service.

Even better work, if you can get it, is to be found in the judicial branch of the Mexican federal government. In 2005, the 11 justices on the National Supreme Court of Justice—equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court—received $311,759, compared to $194,200 for their American counterparts. (The U.S. Chief Justice earns $202,900.)

State-level Mexican officials are amply rewarded as well. Salaries and bonuses place the average compensation of Mexican governors at $125,759, which exceeds by almost $10,000 the mean paychecks of U.S. state executives ($115,778). Narciso Agúndez Montaño runs Baja California Sur. Although his state has only 424,041 residents, he earns $277,777. This is $100,000 more than the salary of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who governs 36,132,147 Californians.

And so on…

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The Shelter

Street kids

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Paradox

An old woman begging for money to eat, sit on the stairs of a church and the curiosity of the little girl.