"The war between Televisa and TV Azteca is not released in the field of ideas, nor is it to raise the level of programming. When passing through the small screen Octavio Paz and Juan Jose Arreola amply demonstrated the futility of this media seemingly noble purpose. Behold the Nexus program or political parties or concerts by the National Symphony to scare viewers, even the most docile. The people what they ask, Azcarraga said, and people seem to ask for more trash, more morbid and denigration, more entertainment abject, more stupidity. The War of the television is the war of greed and manipulation, is a desperate battle for control of the market and rising rating of the whole thing. Whether infumables Chespirito or stuffed animals, the feisty Cristina or leguaraz nalgona Brozo and preverbal, the talk of Paty First Chapy or impact or always late on a Sunday, the proto-fascism of Luis Pazos or chronic stupidity Force Informativa Azteca, the TV is that and nothing else: do not try to save or to intervene: they have already won the battle, we are defeated. "
" The first of January 2000 were completed years of an uprising that seems to have Frozen: How long can you be revolutionary? There would be nothing more pitiful to witness the transformation of Subcomandante Marcos in the uncompromising and deranged Colonel Kurt Apocalypse Now, isolated in the darkness of the hidden jungle of Chiapas, surrounding a few faithful Indians, muttering neoliberal slogans and hoping that his fans will transform the world once and for all. Originally being one of the most peculiar rebel movements in Mexican history, the Zapatistas and their leader seem to bet more visible by suicide than by the exasperating and interminable democratic transition. Beyond the speeches and statements of Marcos, it can discern what is the social project that proposes ... perhaps a socialist country, free of defects and vices of the deceased actually existing socialism? "
* Rogelio Villarreal. Bukowski's dilemma. Mexico: Ediciones no name. 2004. 365 p.
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