What do you think should be done- Imagine that you're given the power to do something. What do you think a good president of Mexico would do to finish with this this narco-state that, as you're saying, Mexico is turning into? -For me I personally think that one of the first subjects I'd tackle would be education because many people tend to go into drug dealing because there's no support whatsoever to continue with their basic education, they can't get decent jobs; they tend to get jobs that pay an average of 300 for an entire family and thus, when someone tells wonders about the profits of drug dealing, they head that way many times they get into it out of need, because they couldn't their primary or secondary education, so I think that the subject of education is key here.
Then I would go to security to make policemen truly ready for what they're gonna face and give them a decent salary, to make that job attractive, being a policeman because law enforcement is seen as something dangerous, because everybody deems them as corrupt, as bought by crime lords. . .
and not all of them are, but, unfortunately if a single policeman is bad, they deem them all to be so not every military person is bad, but not all of them are good either but, unfortunately, because of a single black sheep every other person's job is not considered worth it. So I'd make more professional the whole subject of public safety, because, I'll repeat it- well, no, I didn't say this, but many policemen are not even trained, Jordi. Many policemen enter the corporation and that same day they're given the rifle, this is its safety mechanism you push it like this, and that's it, you're a policeman now, Jordi.
Here in Mexico. We're talking about not many townships- and the ones who do have it are important ones- I'm talking about here, in Jalisco here in Jalisco, the townships that do have trained policemen are Guadalajara, Zapopa those are the ones that mandate police training. The rest, all the rest of townships in Jalisco I don't have the exact number now but none have the training, Jordi.
And none have fair wages So that's where I'm headed- that's why some policemen do certain acts that they shouldn't do because they don't even have the preparation, so I think that preparing correctly the policemen and making it worth it giving people that emotion to serve and wear the uniform, because it's not the same I've been out of the army for almost three years now and I still love and respect for my uniform, Jordi, because I had to work hard for it. It was hard to get it. So it's very frustrating for me to see people denigrating it but policemen don't go through that same stage, because they're given the uniform, the gun and tossed out to patrol.
So they don't have this sense of belonging for the blue color of their uniform. And that's why they end up doing some criminal acts, because they don't value what they have. because it wasn't hard for them.
So, for me, there needs to be that kind of change in the police. And also, as I said, make it an attractive job, with the wage And at a war level, do you think that narcotrafficking should be treated as some sort of army and begin a sort of civil war in Mexico I'm using bigger words here, killing: go out to kill in the same way as they do, with the tanks and all, or do you think that would be harmful? -I think it would be the right thing, but, unfortunately, everything is politics, Jordi.
Many times you see tanks- and small tanks, mostly, on the streets and you see them with their 50 caliber machine guns, but it's all a deterrence technique because many times I have heard, when there's a regular soldier from the regular troops, how my own superiors said even if you get shot, you cannot use this machine gun, and I was like "ok". It's just a deterrence technique but they can shoot you and annihilate you as if you were just a pig, an animal, but you cannot do the same, because the Human Rights subject comes in and it favors them. And here in Mexico Human Rights are in cahoots with them, so we are with our backs against the wall.
You cannot perform your job in a correct way because in every single second the Human Rights are behind you I now spoke about the Special Forces, and you say "Wow, this looks so cool" and all of that, however you say it. But come to any parade in Mexico and you'll see hundreds of women wearing the green beret and you'd be like "well, I don't think it must be that hard". I mean, I’m not sexist because I have a daughter, a wife, a mother.
. . and I wouldn't want them to go through the same that women go through in the Armed Forces, but if I see women with the green berets it's not because they're from the Armed Forces, is to fulfill a requisite of the Human Rights of "yeah, look, I have women in my parade" "They exist in the Special Forces".
-Like a required quota, right? -Yeah, like a quota. So it's frustrating to see them with the beret, not because she's a woman, but, to me, she hasn't earned it.
If a woman did the same as you do, you'd be okay with her wearing the beret and she was the same. -Exactly, because she'd be my sister, she'd belong to this brotherhood cause she earned it and for me, she'd be an example of how she managed to be what in this training of 400 men couldn't do. She'd be an example, an example for all women of it being a possibility.
But I'm against just dressing up someone to make people believe that equity and equality exist in the Armed Forces, that's what pisses me off. And the same thing happens with every social aspect in Mexico, everything is we call it a "screen operation", only to give off an image of everything being perfectly fine. That's what's truly going on here in Mexico, Jordi.
