Democracy is kidnapped

We're sad, but not dead.

WE WON'T STOP MOVING

Is it all ending or is it just beggining?

There's just a couple days ahead before the end of electoral campaigns for the next President of Mexican Republic. Republic? Really? Or are we just stumbling with the overwhelming future of yet another 71 years of domination and repressive measures?  a dictatorship held by many names? are we just going to sit and watch some guy do whatever the hell he wants with our life and our future just because he's "handsome"?
NO. I won't.
Some people say that  Andres Manuel López Obrador is just the same as all the fuckin' politics out there, that he's just there for the money, that he's deceiving us all. They say he's another Hugo Chavez, another Castro. That he's gonna lead us to poverty, that he'll take our posessions and give them to poor people, disregarding the fact that you probably fought many years to have a home, or a car, or whatever the hell you want.
They're wrong. Maybe he's not the "true change" he announces, but he's gonna set a precedent. He's gonna tell people THEY HAVE THE POWER TO BRING TRUE CHANGE. Maybe we'll start thinking different. Maybe our people's image of themselves will change.
I certainly hope so.
I took this pictures in the campaign closure at my town.
Some of them are quite pretty.

This rooster is a traditional craftsmanship from a nearby town called "la Cañada". 

The expectant crowd

Don't forget 2-oct-68
Don't forget Atenco.
#YoSoy132
AMLO 2012

Maybe Mexico is not even close to what you think it is.

Every country lives its own reality. As you already know I'm from Mexico.
Mexico's reality is way more different than what people all over the world thinks. What I've seen is that there's a severe case of ignorance -imo pretty justifiable- of the things my country represents nowadays. What I'm about to do is to tell you all guys a different perspective of what you probably had heard.
I'm just showing you the big picture. Every single day in the news you hear about dying people. Missing people. The count rises up to hundreds of thousands. You've probably heard that there's a war going on. And the numbers support that allegation, but it's not a CIVIL war. It's a DRUG war, held by the GOVERNMENT, and CIVIL victims. You probably wonder if we can go out to the street, attend to school, play gigs or go to the movies. Yes, you can have somehow a "normal" life. In certain places. At certain hours. Lucky me, I live in a peaceful state, but I can't ignore what people (friends or family) goes trough every single day. Even here we live fearing that someday us, or our best friend or maybe our cousin gets killed by an armed commando while going home riding the bus. The worst part of it is that no matter how convinced you are that your cousin Juan was the last person you'd expect to be implied on anything dangerous. Juan was just at the wrong place and time, but what the media an the government would say is that he was just a collateral victim, in the best case. In the worst case he would be treated as a justiced criminal. There would be no investigation and no justification to his family whatsoever.
What I can see about my country this days is one of the most horrible portraits of a Western movie where there's no good guy. And every single one of us mexicans (and people all over the world) should be well aware of this. We gotta live everyday prepared to fight for your life. Either you fight or run or die.  And I'm amazed that musicians like me or artists like my friends are still able to overcome all this panic paralysis and produce magnificent works.
It is because all of this wild wild west ambient that I decided to write a song about this subject. We released it on live shows and people acceptance was so good tghat we decided to make a single out of it. Our first single. This would probably be the best way for us to show the world the opinion they've never heard: PEOPLE'S opinion. "Can you feel the heath? Could you stay alive at least tonight?"