The general situation of the country is severe. The open unemployment, and even more the disguised one, reaches, according to serious estimations, over 30% of the population on working age and it speeds up striking phenomena like the informal street market, the emigration to U.S. and the shocking growth of delinquency and murders of all kinds. Added to the mentioned problems we have, logically, the constant loss of the purchasing capacity from the workers’ salary, a loss, as all of us know, due to the rigid and brutal wage control by the government which authorizes only rises targeted to compensate the inflation rate, but never its real rise. And what happens is that, almost always, the official inflation is way lower from the real one; hence, the salaries constantly lose the battle against the prices. According to a recent study, made by specialists, the salary has lost a little over 70% of its purchasing capacity on the last 20 years.

We must add to the list that fundamental services such as education and healthcare are getting worse before society, in spite of the optimistic official numbers which talk about its continuous improvements in quality and coverage. However, all Mexicans believe that the public education is insufficient and has an awful quality compared to the private one and, in addition, it is not free in real terms. México’s inhabitants also consider that the public hospitals are bad, insufficient, with elemental lacks like blankets and medicine, and with an awful and inhumane attention which makes them a threat rather than a relief for the health of the beneficiaries. On the other hand, we have the goods and services that the State provides, such as electricity, gas, water, gasoline, highways tolls and the like, whose administration, people believe, has become into a particular business from the public servers in charge of them. And to top it off, the government announces all the time “painful but necessary adjustments” (?!) to their prices and rates, with the usual rising inflation. Let’s add, to finish the list, that the programs “fighting poverty”, in addition to being erroneously focused to the effects and not to the causes, are managed in a seditious and political-machine way, in order to buy the votes from the poor people rather than with spirit of social justice.

And now we have that, within all this devastating economical and social scenery, that almost smells like a disaster, somebody dares to state that none of these is true; that, quite the opposite, unemployment is being reduced since the last months on 2010 when 800 thousand new jobs were created; that on this year, people will see, at last, the real improvement on their tables and in their pockets. But the thinking people ask: how can the spectacular growth be explained if, at the same time, it was announced that the economy grew a little over 3% last year, meaning that, just about over the population’s growing rate? The economical science accepts the theoretical possibility in which the GDP of a country grows while employment doesn’t (it even accepts that there could be a decrease), but it never accepts that employment grows while the GDP contracts or remains stuck. It seems that those who state that it is, actually, a precarious compensation of what we lost in the crisis are right. Plus: how can the optimistic growth be supported if we all know that the U.S. economy, which is the engine that “drags” ours, is far from a phase of peak? With the recovery of the internal market, we are told. But, how can the internal market recover, I mean, the purchasing capacity of Mexicans, with the high rates of unemployment that we have, with salaries of starvation that devalue each day more, and with an inflation that, they say, has grown 150% the value of the basic food basket? That is just impossible.

On the other hand, the economical growth is always the direct result of a bigger investment; but the Mexican businessmen decided long ago that they won’t venture to invest a single cent if they don’t receive juicy “tax incentives”, depressed salaries and controlled workers, absolute judicial and legal security, free infrastructure, zero control on polluting emanations and zero paperwork. They are not happy with what they already have, which is not a little thing, and they strongly withdraw their investments when it’s time to invest. This situation leaves us at the foreign capital investments mercy that, due to its nature of being foreign and being capital, is not under our orders and its purpose is not to relieve our poverty, they only come in to make businesses, big and fast ones. Hence, it’s all about sheer “white lies” that try to temper the discontent from the people and regain their trust for the elections on 2011 and 2012. But, who designed the strategy ignores that when the unease and irritation from the people have reached a certain point, to make statements evidently false concerning their situation, far away from calming the irritation, one thinks that the effective solution to the people’s problems can’t come from the former group of people. The poor people’s hope falls lower and deeper than ever, and their hope looks for its way out by its own ways. The “white lies” are, in such cases, an authentic shot to one’s foot.