Reflexiones internacionalistas

Dentro de la última década, en todos lados se ha hablado de las evaluaciones que hace la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en torno al tema de los derechos humanos, y es que en realidad desde que existen problemas como el de la ocupación ilegal de la franja de Gaza, la Guerra de los Balcanes y la terrible realidad que en este momento vive Siria, las organizaciones internacionales en general se han enfocado en el tema de derechos humanos principalmente porque se han estado violado múltiples estatutos dentro de Convenciones Internacionales (en particular las de Ginebra sobre los presos y la guerra misma). Las Naciones Unidas aboga porque se respeten los derechos humanos y también aboga por la solución pacífica de conflictos sin embargo, estos preceptos no se han estado siguiendo en los últimos años y lamentablemente el costo de esto independientemente de las razones por las cuales no ha intervenido la organización, es que cada día hay más civiles que pagan con su vida el interés ...

Esta entrada es muy especial para mi, comenzando por el hecho de que esta fue la primera vez en mi vida que vi a Su Santidad Dalai Lama en persona. Únicamente sabía de él por medio de las enseñanzas budistas (que como dije anteriormente, yo no soy budista pero en esta parte del mundo lamentablemente es la parte más conocida del Tíbet), y también lo sabía por la divulgación de su filosofía de vida y obviamente por las miles de fotografías y artículos que uno se encuentra en la red. La verdad es que me comencé a acercar a este tema del Tíbet en la parte política gracias a mis profesores del posgrado, uno era de la India y el otro del Tíbet, y este último fue quien nos dio los temas sobre China. Precisamente fue gracias a mi profesor tibetano Tsering Topgyal, que supe qué clase de personas son los tibetanos: totalmente diferentes y con una educación y forma de ver la vida totalmente distintas a los Han. Por otro lado, gracias a mi profesor de la India, Dibyesh Anand, pude ver más a fo...

Antes que nada, me disculpo con mis lectores de temas del Tíbet por haberme tardado tanto en escribir sobre el tema nuevamente.La verdad es que en el tema del Budismo no soy muy 'diestra' como decimos en mi país, y como realmente no soy apegada a ninguna religión, no me atrevo a escribir sobre ello, ya que considero que es algo que debo respetar. Por otro lado, les comparto que he estado expuesta a varias críticas sobre mi postura sobre China, sobretodo en mi trabajo. Honestamente comprendo perfectamente que algunos países consideran importante (y en casos extremos, como bien he visto ya, casi casi la relación más importante que tienen) la relación con China sobretodo por la cuestión comercial. Lo que NO puedo entender es ¿Cómo puede un gobierno o un grupo de personas creer tan ciegamente en lo que un país les enseña que de repente no era poderoso y de repente lo es? Tristemente veo que algo que el CCP sabe hacer bastante bien es lamparear a las personas y a los gobiernos c...

I thought it would be a good idea to show to the rest of the world why one of the best features Mexico has is our prevention culture in what respects to earthquakes. In my experience, I've know and suffered from earthquakes since I have memory and, I also remember that since I was in kindergarten we were always repeated the same thing in what respects to this natural disaster: 'one minute can make a world of difference while the earth is moving'. I have heard from other places of the world that only Japanese and Mexicans have a solid culture of prevention. This post will explain a bit of why we have it, and what we had to suffer for this to be as such. I have always been of the idea that in order to learn a valuable lesson humans have to experience two things: either an amazing happiness or a deep sorrow. I would say that catastrophes always teach the world that nature is the most powerful being and that she will always be above all of us, and also that whatever we do t...

I explicitly forbade myself to write about my own country in my blog because I wanted to make this only about international relations and not turn it into a mess in which debates would be held under my writings. This time however, a very good friend of mine encouraged me to write about my country in the sense of culture and traditions we have. There are many people out there who have a very blurry and even mistaken image from Mexico, and since our internal politics have not been precisely successful since 1994, our image has been worsening a lot since then. Thanks to the tough situation we (me and my nationals) have been living since 2006, it is very hard for outsiders to conceive Mexico in a positive way. This post is not about these problems, nor is about internal politics, which I just hate to argue about. The post is mainly directed to foreigners however, my fellow nationals might find it interesting in the sense of finding some positive things about our country in spite of the...

It has been a long while since I last wrote about Syria. I looked at my own words and I got scared, I never expected to have a bit of reason in what respects to some of the ideas I exposed there. I did not receive criticism nor any type of threatening comment or else. However it scares me to see that some irrational scenario I imagined to some point is now becoming real. It is sad and also annoying to see that certain countries ate unable to get a grip on their past in the sense of learning from their mistakes. In this respect, the United Kingdom, a country that gladly received me for studying and to which I criticise a lot because of recent policies, deserves my applause for the decision they made of not supporting intervention. The fact of some western countries deciding to intervene in Syria is illogical to me in this century, and moreover after what has happened in all countries that had being intervened in their past. Russia had a really harsh lesson in Afghanistan, Germany had ...

I have been writting about China and Tibet for the last month. This time I decided to write about another country which has always been of my favourite ones and which I have always admired since I was a child: Japan. My first trip to Japan was full of surprises. Unfortunately I did not spend many days there however, thanks to my wonderful teacher of Asian Studies, I was able to understand and give meaning to what I was looking at during my long days in Kyoto, Nara and Osaka. In America (I mean the continent) the most common perception of Japan is of a highly-developed and high-tech country with a similarly described society. Japan is seen as a rich country that has exported to the world high quality products, technology being the most common one. The part of cultural products also made Japan to be known everywhere thanks to anime and movies from Hayao Miyazaki who, besides of entertaining in a very different way that Disney does, Miyazaki shows us values from a very different persp...