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JOURNALISM: Carlos Monsivais in Tijuana?

Carlos Monsivais in Tijuana?

" Tijuana as a city as a cultural project, c omo the center of efforts, is an area of \u200b\u200bresistance against the decision of the crime to capitalize on what it means to a border town, and I find this profoundly important . C. Monsivais.

Carlos Monsivais visited the city of Tijuana in the first edition of "Ride in lab of the border", in which writers gathered to share experiences on the border phenomenon contemporary. The Mexican writer, essayist, columnist, reminded the city of his first coming to emphasize the positive development seen in Tijuana.

The sharp sense of irony that has Monsivais and relaxation was transported to the dialogue conference "On this side and the other", which was present Mike Davis, whose involvement will realize in the next edition Wheel of .

His first visit was in 1960, a decade marked by the picturesque cityscape of Tijuana, as noted, and the little cultural activity, then.

Carlos Monsivais sparked laughter from the large audience with his comments, and an incident when he poured a glass of water.
The uprooting seems to characterize the population of Tijuana, said Carlos Monsivais, and not by the imperative need to cross over, but the lack of an emerging cultural identity.

Subsisting in 1970 the picturesque landscape. However, promoters of culture provide an important publishing projects, educational achieve its realization spaces and institutions. Thus, it is inevitable the figure of Professor Rubén Vizcaíno for being a cultural activist and moralizing in an environment prone to excesses.

"Well, the first time I came to Tijuana in recent years was 1960. Not exactly the city is now contemplated. There was perhaps less cultural activity and the dominant tone for me as I realized then what was then the picturesque. "

"Tijuana seemed a quaint town with donkeys transvestite zebras, with all the intensity of the" Revolution Avenue ", then I said, and then nationalized, and it was very shocking for me to feel the border as a tangible fact. "

"Not because of difficulties crossing abounded, much less, but because he felt the separation ... (This is the time during the speech, which he pours a glass of water.) Glass is that it was a traitor who was ready ... It was a continent ... (Dice, and all the listeners laugh.)

"Not because I had a decision to prohibit categorically the migration flow, but because he was such a drastic difference of two worlds. The idea of \u200b\u200ba quaint Mexican world, perhaps it would cover one of the words that suited what we saw, "without projection and with the impression that you had, probably exacerbated by the previous mythology that since there was Rita Hayworth, then Rita Cansino. 1918-1987 - there was no reason to be in Tijuana, what happens is you do not feel any attachment. It was a volatile city. As the sensed time. "

"The second time I came to Tijuana in 1970, my experience was different, because I started a cultural movement, say, a need for expression. Still very much based on the need of Mexico, as an obligation to the adjective and there was a remarkable teacher seemed one of the most outstanding figures that has produced Tijuana, and was Professor Rubén Vizcaíno. "

" I came to give a conference on a remote issue, I do not remember, before a very enthusiastic audience of four people who were very enthusiastic as a form of solidarity, they were the same four people on all conferences and was a kind of Red Cross conferences, so that one would not feel so abandoned. "

" Professor Ruben Vizcaino organized the conference against vice Tijuana experience was unfortunately not remember you but I do. The congress was against vice, so called, hey, no, I'm not awarding a name with playful zeal.

"Congress against vice was the need that the professor theorized Vizcaino to end the black legend of Tijuana. It was, for him, the black legend was ... Vizcaino was a big man, eloquent, he said, began the opening speech, I give them a surprise which I hope will be pleasing: Tijuana is a city of whores ... "We were all! Yes I at least I was moved. I did not expect. Eh! Then there were speeches, all the teacher Vizcaíno. "

"No, I mean really, Professor Vizcaino was a remarkable institution, which owes a great tribute, because it promoted culture, was indefatigable, she encouraged young writers, it's amazing how he did. "

"decided to march against the vice by the Revolution Avenue at that time was not exactly the place prohijase such moralizing attitude. And we, I remember there were ten people, to march against the vice. You do not know that experience. It was very desolate, the women sex workers joined us when they saw our distress demographic and joined the march. I think it's the weirdest place where I've been, because sex workers were about thirty, the ten participants, seven of whom were students of Professor Vizcaino in high school. Professor Vizcaino, a friend and me. I had nothing to do but of course I could not lose, I remember that I said a march against the vice in which I included. "

"We went down the avenue Revolution and out the curious, tourists, transvestites zebras, everything was there. And the prostitutes shouted a slogan they came up along the way: what we do is service but service them.

"really very touching. But then I did was strengthen my idea of \u200b\u200bpicturesqueness of Tijuana. I kept coming and I am increasingly convinced that what was transformed was the idea of \u200b\u200bthe city the way, that was giving up the idea of \u200b\u200bthe city of step. "

so we've seen the former column writer for my mother!, Bohemians, in his repeated visits to the city, as was at the opening of the controversial event the other nation.

After that hilarious histrionic displays, Carlos Mosiváis gave a twist to his speech and pointed out the ideological field that interests you most.

controversy came to his specialty to focus these two geographical situations fertile opportunity for the emergence of the other nation, perhaps, the cultural, without ignoring the terrible inequalities that exist between them accentuated on this side of the migration flow, but as an event migration, which occurs in all continents.

Tijuana so the language lab, where it breaks the syntactic structure of language to the emergence of a speech that integrates life forms. And this impoverishment, as Monsivais, is inevitable.

For Carlos Monsivais, resistance to the border context becomes the definition of a city that thrives, despite the criminal barbarism that seeks to promote the capital representing the border strip left in its wake a cemetery walking and spreading terror among the population.

"With the notion of roots was giving a distinct idea of \u200b\u200bthe border. And that idea of \u200b\u200bthe frontier was still serving the worlds, the sharp difference of the two worlds. "

"And in 1985 it was still very sharp. I remember that the focus on Mexican identity in Mexican culture was deeply embedded in political discourse. And it was all very unreal, like not having a precise about what it meant to the border, because it was considered an inexorable fact. "

"I still remember a discussion about mad-Ricardo Flores Magon, one of my heroes," which insisted that Ricardo Flores Magon had betrayed Mexico. Well, it was somewhat hard to argue with the vehemence with which the subject was handled then. "

"And with time and with migration, and the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding a permanent society was both a reference, the landscape of transit and sustainability, Tijuana was becoming the city \u200b\u200bis now dramatically. "

"But was also changing the notion of border. Increasingly, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe border has gotten rid of their traps or their strongest cages and has been released, without ceasing to exist far from the border, because everything reminds passports, "Border Patrol" and what you will remember, as a cultural and symbolic event that power has been lost constraining it was the most dramatic case. "

"There are still two nations, of course, and we see every day what a policy means and the response of another, through their authorities, but the idea brutal, blunt, sometimes barbarous border, and I think it has faded to the extent that this happens everywhere in the world, and that migration has become a fact that is redefining the world and it certainly is setting the beginning of the twenty-first century. "

"In the early twentieth century wrote a book," Songs of black book ", which begins by saying that the problem of the twentieth century is the color, the racial question. Now he says the Catholic Church, say governments from very different perspectives, the theme of the twenty-first century the migrations. "

"In this sense, migration, what happens is that they are dragging behind the old notions of border. Today, I do not know, if you ask me what exactly is the border? It is a state of mind, is a legal reality, police, legal, political, is a convention for artists simply means the use of two nutrients, is a leading cultural opportunity is the development, integration laboratory that is going to, like it or not. It is where we introduce a language and will happen, which is 'Spanglish', I see no way around it. "

"Everyone, at one time or another, not so pathetically as seen on TV, because there as it broke the syntactic structure, we do not know what they're saying politicians, clergy, show hosts."

"But the ongoing work of definition and redefinition of the border, what comes first is breaking the old notion of border, which was typically border was a mixture of John Wayne and George Negrete on one side, anyway. "

"Everything that was giving to the alternate flow of mythologies, is no longer true. Tijuana, such as a city is a space of resistance in terms of cultural development, specifically, is a space of resistance against crime in the sense that there is a whole society that choose to continue, you choose to believe in cultural values, the spirit or whatever you call it, which is insisting on the expansion of universities and cultural institutions, but the legend continues to bear the pitch black, and instant cemeteries in drug violence. "

"Tijuana, as city \u200b\u200bas a cultural project, as the center of efforts to which belongs this laboratory, is an area of \u200b\u200bresistance against the decision of the crime to capitalize on what it means to a border town, and I find this profoundly important, and that's what done to my taste even more valid every effort is made on books, exhibitions, installations, laboratories, language experiences, because if something is going to have this lab will be the idea that a language as strong has no reason to be without this implying that disobey, foolish or stupid, the duty to the language. "

"I believe that today the border is a term subject to debate, not accepted on this side, and I suppose also that since then, the border is strictly a psychopathological version of the Berlin Wall."

"Nor forget what the presence of two constitutions, two legal systems, two court systems, it is impossible to forget, but a lot has been cleared of any symbolic significance of the term border and in that we are now. "

"And so between the effort that I like to highlight is the very first term, because it is the more I understand the culture. Thanks to this cultural resistance, Tijuana refuses to reload with a black legend and with such resistance, the ability of cultural creation, the border itself may become, do not say has been returned, can become an area of \u200b\u200bgreat creativity, that is. Thank you. "